Senior GCP Operations Architect

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Responsibilities

• ▹Provide expert guidance on the architecture and operation of GCP networking, compute, security, storage, and supporting platform services
• ▹Partner with customer operations teams to identify and introduce new tools, operational patterns, and cloud best practices
• ▹Serve as a primary point of contact for infrastructure and operations questions and technical escalations, providing Tier 3 troubleshooting across cloud infrastructure, Terraform deployments, and DevSecOps pipelines
• ▹Quickly develop expertise and take ownership of unfamiliar technical or operational areas, providing guidance to customer and delivery teams
• ▹Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies and technical forums, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning and reviews, technical syncs, scrum-of-scrums, operational reviews, postmortems, and retrospectives
• ▹Review system metrics and logs to identify performance bottlenecks, stability concerns, and emerging risks; support root cause analysis
• ▹Assess and strengthen day-two operational readiness, including troubleshooting procedures, escalation paths, backup and recovery strategies, disaster recovery protocols, and high-availability configurations
• ▹Provide guidance on Terraform module development, state management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD integration; review GitOps and DevSecOps workflows
• ▹Support release-management activities, including the application and rollback of database releases
• ▹Review and guide the development of runbooks, SOPs, and other operational artifacts
• ▹Review the Technical Design Document every two weeks and advise customer stakeholders on required revisions

Requirements

• ▹U.S. citizenship and current or attainable FAA Public Trust clearance
• ▹Expert-level knowledge of GCP networking, compute, security, storage, and platform services architecture
• ▹Terraform-based infrastructure automation
• ▹DevSecOps and CI/CD experience
• ▹Tier 3 troubleshooting experience across cloud infrastructure

Nice to have

• ▹Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote work within the continental United States

About the company

540 is a forward-thinking company that the government turns to for mission-critical technology solutions.