Cloud Platform Architect (GCP)

Location: Minneapolis, MN, 55401, United States

Salary: $118,000–$142,500 per year

Company

hirify.global provides electricity and natural gas products and services to customers across eight Western and Midwestern states.

What you will do

• Design, build, and govern enterprise cloud foundations across Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure.
• Create cloud landing zones with security, governance, automation, and shared platform services.
• Define standards for networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and platform services.
• Enable consistent workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, container-based, cloud-native, legacy, and packaged environments.
• Design for high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, operational support, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, operations, architecture, delivery, and business teams; lead architecture reviews and mentor teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technology, science, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least seven years of related functional experience in a large corporate environment.
• Experience with project solution architecture and core software, hardware, network, integration, data, hosting, and platform architecture concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, relationship management, and cross-organizational collaboration skills.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform, including identity and access management, networking, connectivity, security, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, automation, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and security or compliance frameworks.

Nice to have

• Eight or more years of infrastructure, platform, or enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience in regulated or mission-critical industries such as utilities, energy, financial services, or healthcare.
• Cloud architecture certifications, CISSP, CISM, or similar credentials.
• Familiarity with NERC CIP and NIST frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and reimbursement account options.
• Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, and transportation reimbursement options.
• Annual incentive program, pension, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement, fitness center reimbursement, transit programs, and an employee recognition program.
• Commitment to cybersecurity, accessibility, equal opportunity, and inclusive employment practices.