[Hiring] Principal Architect: GCP Cloud @CNX

Role Description

As the Principal Architect for GCP Cloud, you are a high-impact consultative leader and trusted advisor responsible for the foundational infrastructure and security platforms that enable our entire Google Cloud practice. Your mission is to design enterprise-grade environments—including Landing Zones, networking fabrics, and security perimeters—while acting as a key bridge between sales pursuits, technical solutioning, and successful delivery. You work closely with customers and channel partners to translate business requirements into resilient technical architectures, ensuring our AI, CX, and Integration solutions scale safely and effectively across the global enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Consultative Solutioning & Sales Support: Partner with sales and account teams to lead technical discovery, provide high-level effort estimation, and design foundational cloud solutions that win complex, high-stakes enterprise pursuits.
• Foundational Cloud Architecture & Delivery Oversight: Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Landing Zones, VPC networking, and security perimeters (e.g., Private Service Connect), while providing technical governance and oversight during the delivery phase to ensure architectural integrity.
• GCP Innovation Lab Leadership: Direct the operational strategy and governance of the internal Google Cloud sandbox; oversee the development of strategic accelerators, POCs, and reusable IP while managing platform security, cost optimization, and resource accessibility to facilitate high-impact experimentation across the practice.
• Customer & Channel Technical Liaison: Serve as a strategic technical point of contact for both clients and Google’s channel/field teams, coordinating joint-pursuits and ensuring alignment with Google’s evolving infrastructure roadmap and "Private Preview" innovations.
• Cross-Practice Infrastructure Advisory: Consult with the AI, CX, and API architects to ensure their specific workload requirements (e.g., specialized compute, low-latency audio processing) are optimized and governed within the core GCP environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technical architecture and consultative cloud infrastructure leadership
• Expert-level fluency in GCP Infrastructure (GCE, GKE, Cloud Run), Networking, Security, and IAM
• Proven experience in customer-facing roles, with the ability to influence CXO stakeholders and lead technical solutioning for complex sales cycles
• Deep experience designing multi-region, compliant cloud foundations for global enterprises

Requirements

• Google Professional Cloud Architect and Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certifications
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automated landing zone deployments
• Previous experience in a principal or lead architect role within a technology consultancy

Benefits

• Base salary range: $137,837 - $216,601, plus incentives that align with individual and company performance
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Comprehensive employee assistance program
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off and holidays