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Google Cloud Platform Architect
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11 August 2026 (4 hours ago)
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Application Deadline:
8 November 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
Contract Classification: Inside IR35
Daily Rate breakdown
Traditional Daily Rate: 450
Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): 346.95
Equivalent Annual Salary:holiday pay
Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers Rockford Pay
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
