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We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Architect (Google Cloud) to partner with enterprise sales, consulting, and delivery teams in designing and positioning scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions for clients across South Africa and the Middle East & Africa. This role serves as the senior technical leader for Google Cloud architecture engagements, providing strategic guidance, solution leadership, and architectural governance across the full cloud lifecycle.
Job Responsibility
Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of enterprise-scale Google Cloud solutions
Partner with sales and client stakeholders to develop compelling cloud strategies, solution architectures, and transformation roadmaps
Design highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms using Google Cloud best practices and Google Cloud Architecture Framework principles
Develop and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager (or Infrastructure Manager) and Google Cloud configuration automation tools
Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives
Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to implement CI/CD and platform automation strategies
Drive cloud security, compliance, governance, and FinOps best practices
Perform architecture reviews and provide technical oversight throughout solution delivery
Act as a trusted advisor to clients, presenting technical solutions to executive, business, and technical audiences
Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to cloud capability development and thought leadership
Stay current with emerging Google Cloud services, industry trends, and cloud-native technologies
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering, with at least 4 years focused on Google Cloud
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification (required or strongly preferred)
Deep expertise across Google Cloud services including VPC, Cloud Router, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Bigtable/Firestore, Cloud IAM, Resource Manager, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud DNS, and Backup and DR
Strong experience designing enterprise networking, identity, security, and governance architectures within Google Cloud
Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Google Cloud infrastructure automation frameworks
Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks