Sr. Cloud Architect
Abacus Group LLC
Contract
Remote
Job description
Dallas, US
Job Type
: ContractWork location
: onsiteSalary
: $80 / HourlyDescription
As a Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, building, and governing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform. This role translates business requirements into technical cloud solutions and ensures best practices across security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end cloud architectures using GCP services aligned with business and technical requirements
- Define cloud standards, reference architectures, and best practices across teams
- Lead migration of on-prem or multi-cloud workloads to GCP
- Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems
- Implement security, IAM, networking, and compliance controls
- Optimize cloud costs using monitoring, budgets, and resource governance
- Collaborate with engineering, data, DevOps, and security teams
- Review architectures, conduct design assessments, and mitigate risks
- Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
- Act as a technical advisor for cloud strategy and roadmap decisions
Required Skill Set
Google Cloud Platform