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Google Cloud Platform Architect
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Posted:
19 September 2026 (9 hours ago)
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Application Deadline:
17 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Contract Role: Google Cloud Platform Architect
Contract Location: Glasgow / On-site 5 days
Contract Duration: 6 months initially (with potential extension)
Contract Start Date: Immediate
Job Responsibilities
Architects and executes complex creative software solutions with ability to
think strategically beyond routine or conventional approaches - breaking down
ambiguous technical problems and influencing architectural decisions across
teams
Develops secure high-quality production code and actively reviews debugs
and improves code written by others - establishing coding standards and
raising the engineering bar across the team
Leads architectural design for cloud-native systems and services producing
comprehensive design artifacts (RFCs ADRs architecture diagrams) that are
reviewed and adopted across multiple teams
Owns operational excellence by proactively identifying patterns in system
failures operational metrics and data; designing and implementing
systematic improvements to system reliability performance and observability
Evaluates and leads vendor/technology assessments -conducting deep-dive
sessions with external vendors startups and internal teams to drive
outcomes-oriented evaluation of architectural designs technical credentials
and applicability to the firms technology strategy
Leads and grows engineering communities of practice across Software
Engineering to drive awareness adoption and standards for emerging cloud
native technologies and best practices
Mentors and develops junior and mid-level engineers through code review
design collaboration and knowledge-sharing activities
Contributes to strategic initiatives that shape the firms cloud platform
standards CI/CD maturity and infrastructure-as-code practices
Builds and operates resilient highly scalable services deployed to AWS in line
with firm-wide public cloud standards and security/compliance requirements
Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years
applied experience in production software development
Advanced hands-on practical experience delivering system design
application development testing and operational stability at scale
Advanced proficiency in one or more modern programming languages with
demonstrated ability to optimize for performance maintainability and security
with GoLang or Python being preferred including performance optimization
and concurrency patterns
Advanced Kubernetes platform engineering expertise including hands-on
experience designing developing and operating custom Kubernetes
Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) using frameworks such
as Kubebuilder Operator SDK or equivalent.
Demonstrated ability to extend Kubernetes APIs to automate complex
platform infrastructure security or application lifecycle workflows at
enterprise scale.
Proven experience building cloud-native control planes and automation
frameworks on Kubernetes including authoring reconciliation loops
admission controllers webhooks and custom controllers; strong
understanding of Kubernetes internals API machinery RBAC multi-tenancy
observability and operational best practices for production environments.
In-depth Google Cloud development experience -architecting building
deploying and operating production cloud-native workloads using core GCP
services; understanding cost optimization and security best practices
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery -designing and
implementing CI/CD pipelines infrastructure automation and deployment
strategies
Advanced understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle - ability to
influence and improve SDLC practices across teams
Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies -CI/CD Application Resiliency
Security and capacity planning
Demonstrated expertise in a technical discipline (e.g. cloud architecture
artificial intelligence/machine learning mobile distributed systems security
DevOps/platform engineering)
In-depth knowledge of financial services industry and their IT systems
regulatory constraints and operational requirements
Practical experience with Al-assisted developer tools and Al agents (Copilot
Claude Code or equivalent) to improve engineering productivity code quality
and knowledge acquisition
Strong communication and influence skills - ability to articulate technical
decisions trade-offs and recommendations to both technical and non
technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills
Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code expertise (Terraform CloudFormation
CDK) designing reusable modules and standards across teams
Deep observability and monitoring expertise (Prometheus Grafana Datadog
CloudWatch) - designing comprehensive observability strategies
GCP certifications (Developer Solutions Architect Security Specialty)
Experience with security practices - secure coding threat modelling
compliance and incident response in cloud environments
Track record of open-source contributions or knowledge-sharing within the
engineering community
Experience architecting or leading multi-team initiatives that span
infrastructure
application and platform engineering
