Senior Cloud Architect

Humana • Louisville, KY

4d • $129,300 - $177,800 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Architect leads the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, resilient, and automated cloud solutions that enable application teams to build and operate modern cloud-native workloads. The Senior Cloud Architect works on complex technical challenges involving cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, security, reliability, and governance. This role evaluates technology options, develops architecture patterns and standards, and collaborates across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver cloud platform capabilities that support business and technology objectives. The Senior Cloud Architect is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure, cloud-native services, and platform engineering capabilities that enable secure, compliant, and operationally sound cloud adoption across the enterprise. This role develops and implements architecture patterns, engineering standards, automation solutions, and reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate delivery, and increase platform reliability, security, and scalability. The Senior Cloud Architect evaluates cloud products and services, assesses integration requirements across interconnected technologies, and provides technical leadership for cloud platform initiatives and modernization efforts. The Senior Cloud Architect partners closely with cloud platform engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, SRE, and application delivery teams to design and implement cloud solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements, operational standards, and business objectives. This role contributes to the development and adoption of cloud standards, reference architectures, governance controls, and platform best practices. The Senior Cloud Architect is expected to lead architecture and design activities for moderately complex to complex initiatives involving cloud computing, container platforms, automation, identity and access management, networking, observability, and operational resilience. The role provides technical guidance to engineering teams, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and drives alignment across stakeholders with varying priorities and requirements. The Senior Cloud Architect promotes modern engineering practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, cloud-native architecture patterns, policy-based governance, and platform engineering principles. This role helps ensure cloud solutions are secure, supportable, scalable, cost-effective, and designed to meet current and future business needs. The Senior Cloud Architect exercises considerable latitude in determining technical approaches and implementation strategies, works with minimal supervision, and influences architecture decisions through technical expertise, collaboration, and leadership. This role is part of the Google Cloud Platform Engineering organization and is responsible for advancing enterprise cloud capabilities through platform engineering, automation, operational excellence, governance, and developer enablement. The team operates the Google Cloud Platform as an internal product, focusing on adoption, usability, security, reliability, and operational excellence for enterprise development teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or architecture experience.
• 3+ years designing and operating public cloud solutions.
• 2+ years working with Google Cloud Platform or similar public cloud platforms.
• Experience designing large-scale cloud architectures in regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with cloud platform engineering, automation, and self-service enablement concepts.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and automation solutions.
• Experience implementing cloud security and governance controls.
• Strong understanding of networking, identity, observability, and cloud operations.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and organizations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform environments
• Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and cloud-native application architectures
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and platform automation
• Experience with cloud networking, IAM, security controls, and governance frameworks
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
• Experience with platform engineering, self-service cloud capabilities, and developer enablement
• Experience supporting regulated environments with security and compliance requirements
• Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture decisions across multiple teams
• Thinks in platforms rather than individual solutions
• Designs with a customer and developer experience mindset
• Champions automation and standardization
• Understands security and governance as platform capabilities
• Uses architectural judgement to balance speed, risk, and operational supportability
• Influences through experience and collaboration
• Demonstrates strong ownership and accountability

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, resilient, and automated cloud solutions.
• Works on complex technical challenges involving cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, security, reliability, and governance.
• Evaluates technology options, develops architecture patterns and standards, and collaborates across teams.
• Plans, designs, implements, and continuously improves Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure, cloud-native services, and platform engineering capabilities.
• Develops and implements architecture patterns, engineering standards, automation solutions, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Evaluates cloud products and services, assesses integration requirements across interconnected technologies.
• Provides technical leadership for cloud platform initiatives and modernization efforts.
• Partners closely with cloud platform engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, SRE, and application delivery teams.
• Contributes to the development and adoption of cloud standards, reference architectures, governance controls, and platform best practices.
• Leads architecture and design activities for initiatives involving cloud computing, container platforms, automation, identity and access management, networking, observability, and operational resilience.
• Provides technical guidance to engineering teams, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and drives alignment across stakeholders.
• Promotes modern engineering practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, cloud-native architecture patterns, policy-based governance, and platform engineering principles.
• Ensures cloud solutions are secure, supportable, scalable, cost-effective, and designed to meet current and future business needs.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical approaches and implementation strategies.
• Influences architecture decisions through technical expertise, collaboration, and leadership.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior