Senior GCP Cloud Architect (DevOps & Platform) | Contract | Hybrid | Agoura Hills, CA
Contract, hybrid role at consulting firm Tech Holding: a hands-on Senior GCP Cloud Architect who owns and evolves the Google Cloud platform (landing zone, networking, IAM, security, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terragrunt) supporting AI enablement workloads and engineering-team onboarding, with one onsite day per week in Agoura Hills, CA.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Architect-level experience designing and owning production cloud platforms with deep, hands-on GCP expertise
- Solid grounding in landing zone concepts: org hierarchy, network design, identity, org policy, security baselines
- Fluency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu, ideally Terragrunt) and surrounding automation patterns
- Able to inherit an existing system: read existing code and design decisions and build on rather than rewrite
- Broad DevOps and platform engineering judgment — CI/CD, observability, release safety
- Able to work independently, explain architectural trade-offs, and communicate decisions to engineers and stakeholders
Nice to have
- Strong background in authentication and authorization: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SSO/SAML, GCP Identity Platform, Identity-Aware Proxy, Workload Identity Federation, service-to-service auth
- AWS experience
- Encryption and key management experience: Cloud KMS, CMEK, encryption in transit/at rest, secrets management
- Experience with Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, or agent platforms
- Google Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification
Full description
About us:
Working at Tech Holding isn't just a job, it's an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. We are a full-service consulting firm that was founded on the premise of delivering predictable outcomes and high-quality solutions to our clients. Our founders and team members have industry experience and have held senior positions in a wide variety of companies – from emerging startups to large Fortune 50 firms – and we have taken our combined experiences and developed a unique approach that is supported by the principles of deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.
The Role:
We are looking for a Senior GCP Cloud Architect for a project-based assignment to own and evolve the Google Cloud platform that underpins our AI enablement work, across networking, IAM, security, governance, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering. This is an architect-level role that stays hands-on: you will set the direction for cloud and system design, make and defend the architectural calls, and remain close enough to the infrastructure-as-code to extend it yourself. You will maintain and evolve the existing environment, support engineering teams onboarding onto the platform, and ensure it remains secure, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with established standards. The ideal candidate is comfortable inheriting an existing cloud environment, understanding the architecture and design decisions already in place, and improving the platform without unnecessarily rebuilding it.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve our GCP landing zone across networking, IAM, security, and governance as requirements change, including the needs of AI enablement workloads.
- Serve as the architectural authority for cloud and system design — set standards, run design reviews, document decisions, and guide teams toward them.
- Make sure the platform is ready to support AI workloads on GCP: identity and access, network boundaries, guardrails, and a repeatable path for teams to adopt GCP AI services.
- Maintain and extend our infrastructure-as-code estate and the automation that deploys it.
- Support engineering teams onboarding onto the platform, and keep the self-service path smooth.
- Keep the platform healthy over time: cost, security posture, reliability, and reducing drift between what’s documented and what’s running.
- Advocate for DevOps practices across the organization.
Requirements:
- Architect-level experience designing and owning production cloud platforms, with deep, hands-on GCP expertise — GCP is the core of this role.
- Solid grounding in landing zone concepts — org hierarchy, network design, identity, org policy, and security baselines — enough to reason about ours and improve it.