Sr. Technology Architect - GCP and AWS Network architecture Germany, Netherlands

Sr. Technology Architect - GCP and AWS Network architecture - UK, Germany, Netherlands

Location – Germany, UK and Netherlands (Any location)

Unit – CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)

The Senior Technology Architect (STA) for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is accountable for architecting, designing, and governing cloud solutions that deliver enterprise‑grade scalability, reliability, security, and cost‑effectiveness. This role works in close partnership with clients, delivery teams, and engineering groups to develop robust cloud‑native, hybrid, and multi‑cloud architectures for large‑scale transformation programs. The STA serves as a strategic leader in cloud innovation, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and providing deep technical acumen across both GCP and AWS platforms.

• Lead comprehensive architectural design for workloads on GCP and AWS, including compute, storage, networking, data, containers, and serverless technologies.
• Create detailed high‑ and low‑level design documentation, architecture diagrams, and deployment models.
• Drive modernization efforts such as containerization (GKE, EKS), microservices, serverless models, event‑driven architectures, and advanced data platforms.
• Engineer sophisticated multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud environments leveraging Anthos, interconnectivity between GCP/AWS, and seamless on‑premises integration.

• Provide expert technical direction to engineering and Dev Ops teams during solution design, implementation, migration, and optimization phases.
• Define and ensure compliance with architecture standards, guardrails, design patterns, and reusable templates.
• Review Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) using Terraform and Cloud Formation, and oversee CI/CD pipeline maturity focusing on security, resilience, and automation.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise governance, regulatory, and compliance mandates (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, CIS benchmarks).

• Architect migration strategies encompassing rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, container migration, and modernization of data pipelines.
• Conduct readiness assessments, TCO/ROI analysis, and application dependency mapping.
• Establish landing zones within GCP and AWS integrating robust security, monitoring, and automation practices.

• Implement Zero Trust models, native security controls, IAM/RBAC, KMS, encryption, web application firewalls, and network segmentation.
• Architect highly available systems and disaster recovery solutions utilizing multi‑zone and multi‑region capabilities.
• Optimize performance through autoscaling, caching, load balancing, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Anthos, Envoy).

• Collaborate with client CTOs, architects, and business leaders to define and advance cloud strategies and transformation roadmaps.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging trends such as AI/ML integration, advanced data platforms, Fin Ops, and edge computing.
• Present architectural proposals, risk assessments, and governance recommendations to stakeholders.

• Design and implement end‑to‑end automation pipelines for build, test, release, and operational workflows.
• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to facilitate observability, SLO/SLI tracking, error budgeting, and automated operations.
• Oversee centralized logging and monitoring using Cloud Watch, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus/Grafana, and SIEM tools.

• Expert knowledge of GCP services:
  Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Big Query, VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, IAM, KMS.
• Advanced proficiency with AWS services: EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, KMS, IAM, Dynamo
  
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• Strong expertise in Terraform, Cloud Formation, and CI/CD tools (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• In‑depth understanding of networking, VPC design, interconnectivity options, load balancing,…