£62 Per hour
Undetermined
Onsite
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Google Cloud Architect role involves leading enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and security projects for a leading consulting company. This contract position requires a hands-on approach to design and implement secure GCP environments while collaborating with various teams. The role is based in London and demands expertise in automation, Kubernetes, and cloud migration. Candidates should possess relevant experience and certifications in GCP.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement secure, scalable GCP Landing Zones.
- Drive automation with Terraform and architect Kubernetes (GKE) solutions.
- Collaborate with security, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver robust cloud environments.
- Manage multi-cloud migrations and ensure compliance with enterprise governance standards.
Key Skills:
- Experience designing and implementing secure, production-grade GCP environments.
- Strong hands-on ability with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
- Capability in architecting and deploying Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.
- Understanding of GCP security, identity federation, RBAC, and Zero Trust networking.
- Experience leading cloud migration projects and designing secure VPC networks.
- Google Cloud Platform certifications are advantageous.
Salary (Rate): £62.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Are you a Google Cloud Architect? Our client, a leading consulting company, are seeking a Google Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and security projects. This is a contract position, and will require you to work 3 days a week from their London based office. Ready to take your Google Cloud expertise to the next level? Apply today!
Key Responsibilities:
- As the Google Cloud Architect you’ll design and implement secure, scalable GCP Landing Zones, drive automation with Terraform, and architect Kubernetes (GKE) solutions.
- This hands-on role involves collaborating with security, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver robust cloud environments and manage multi-cloud migrations, ensuring compliance with enterprise governance standards.
Skills and Experience Required:
We are seeking someone with the following skills:
- Demonstrable experience designing and implementing secure, production-grade GCP environments, including Landing Zones, IAM, networking, and compliance controls.
- Strong hands-on ability with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, including modular design, automation (e.g., GitHub Actions/Terraform Cloud), and CI/CD best practices.
- Proven capability in architecting and deploying Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, including service mesh, autoscaling, workload identity, and observability.
- Solid understanding of GCP security, identity federation (SAML/OIDC), RBAC, Zero Trust networking, and VPC Service Controls.
- Experience leading cloud migration projects, including DNS, traffic switching, disaster recovery, and designing secure VPC networks with hybrid connectivity.
- Ideally have experience leading or supporting Datacenter EU to ZA migrations for either Google or Azure.
- Currently hold one or more Google Cloud Platform certifications would be advantageous.