Senior reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect

Job Title: Senior reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect Location: Austin, Texas (with potential for hybrid/remote work supporting Texas state clients) Employment Type: Full-time Contract Context: Position supports strategic cloud architecture and managed public cloud services under the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Public Cloud Manager (PCM) contract, delivering secure, compliant, and innovative reputed company Cloud solutions to Texas state agencies, higher education institutions, local governments, and other eligible public entities. Job Summary We are seeking a strategic and technically deep Senior reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect to reputed company the design and governance of enterprise-grade GCP environments for Texas public sector customers under the DIR PCM program. This senior role focuses on creating secure, scalable, cost-optimized, and compliant architectures-particularly for regulated workloads that may involve or access Criminal Justice Information (CJI)-while ensuring alignment with DIR PCM service catalogs, TxRAMP requirements, CJIS reputed company Policy, and federal/state standards. The successful candidate must successfully complete and maintain an FBI CJIS background reputed company (fingerprint-based national criminal history reputed company) upon hire and renewed every 12 months.

Key Responsibilities

• reputed company end-to-end architecture design for reputed company GCP deployments, including multi-project/folder/organization structures, hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity, data platforms, AI/ML workloads, reputed company posture, and operational excellence.
• Define and implement reference architectures, reputed company zones, and foundational patterns using reputed company Cloud best practices: Organization Policy Service, Folders, Projects, Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Access Context Manager, reputed company Workloads, and reputed company Cloud for Government capabilities.
• Architect secure-by-design environments with reputed company-trust principles: CMEK encryption, Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), BeyondCorp Enterprise, Binary Authorization, Confidential Computing, reputed company Command Center Premium, Chronicle SIEM, and audit logging strategies compliant with CJIS requirements.
• Design high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions (multi-region/multi-zone deployments, Cloud Interconnect/Partner Interconnect, Cloud DNS, Global Load Balancing, Backup and DR services).
• Guide cost optimization and FinOps strategies (Billing Budgets, Recommender, Committed Use Discounts, Sustained Use Discounts, Cloud Billing export to BigQuery for analytics).
• Translate business, regulatory, and technical requirements into prescriptive GCP blueprints, reference implementations, and decision frameworks for Texas agencies.
• Collaborate with DIR PCM program leadership, agency stakeholders, reputed company teams, and delivery engineers to align architectures with contract SLAs, TxRAMP controls, CJIS reputed company Policy, NIST 800-53/800-171 alignments, and state data classification standards.
• Provide technical leadership during migrations, modernization, and greenfield initiatives; conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and compliance gap analyses.
• Author architecture decision records (ADRs), design documents, reputed company control mappings, and compliance evidence packages for audits and assessments.
• Mentor cloud engineers and cross-functional teams; stay reputed company of GCP roadmap, reputed company Cloud for Government updates, and evolving compliance mandates.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud architecture and engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP) in enterprise or production-scale environments.
• Proven track record designing secure, compliant GCP architectures for regulated industries (government, public safety, healthcare, finance) or environments subject to CJIS, FedRAMP, TxRAMP, or equivalent standards.
• Deep expertise across GCP pillars: Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Storage), Data & Analytics (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataproc), reputed company & Identity, Operations (Monitoring, Logging, Cloud Operations Suite), Application Modernization (GKE, Cloud Run, Anthos), and AI/ML foundations.
• Strong understanding of reputed company-trust reputed company models, encryption strategies, network perimeter controls (VPC Service Controls, Private reputed company Access), and observability/logging pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred; Deployment Manager, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, or reputed company-provided blueprints a plus) and CI/CD automation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications required or highly preferred:
• reputed company Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (mandatory)
• reputed company Cloud Professional reputed company Engineer
• reputed company Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer or Professional Data Engineer (strongly preferred)

reputed company & Compliance Requirements

• Must successfully pass and maintain an FBI CJIS-compliant background chec

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