What are the responsibilities and job description for the Google Cloud Platform Platform Architect position at TekShapers?
Google Cloud Platform Platform Architect
Location: Raritan, NJ
Work Mode: Hybrid – Minimum 3 days/week onsite
Employment: Full-Time
Experience: 12–15 Years
Role Overview
Seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Platform Architect to lead cloud architecture, platform engineering, modernization, observability, automation, security, and reliability for enterprise applications in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and govern scalable, secure, resilient Google Cloud Platform cloud platforms.
- Lead cloud modernization, platform engineering, and application transformation initiatives.
- Define observability, AIOps, SRE, and DevOps standards.
- Drive Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, and self-service platforms.
- Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, anomaly detection, and automated RCA.
- Provide architecture governance and technical leadership across engineering and operations teams.
Required Skills
- Strong Google Cloud Platform architecture experience – GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Monitoring & Logging.
- Gemini AI – Mandatory
- Apigee – Mandatory
- Hands-on AWS experience – Mandatory
- Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Python/Shell
- Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, APM, SLI/SLO
- Cloud security, IAM, DR/BCP, governance and compliance.
- GxP/CSV experience preferred.
Preferred
- 5 years of Google Cloud Platform architecture experience.
- Enterprise-scale cloud/platform modernization experience.
- Life Sciences / Pharma / Healthcare / Pharmacovigilance experience.
- Google Cloud Platform/AWS certification preferred.
Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.