Designs and governs secure GCP architectures for federal health workloads. Responsibilities include building FedRAMP High and NIST-compliant landing zones, assessing workloads, leading hybrid cloud and application migrations, implementing Terraform-based infrastructure as code, and establishing governance, cost optimization, and resource-tagging practices. The role also requires secure network architecture, stakeholder communication, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust background investigation.
Who we are...
Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.
We are hiring a GCP Cloud Architect Lead to design and govern secure Google Cloud Platform architectures for a federal health customer. You will work with system administrators, application teams, and project teams to operate, modernize, and migrate applications in the cloud, and you will set the technical direction for new workloads. The role sits on a cloud operations and migration team. This position is fully remote in the United States.
What you will do...
- Design and maintain GCP landing zones that meet FedRAMP High and NIST requirements.
- Lead technical assessments of pilots and new workloads, and recommend the architecture and path to production.
- Plan and lead migrations of applications and data from on-premises data centers and other clouds to GCP, including secure hybrid connectivity.
- Champion Infrastructure as Code with Terraform so environments are repeatable, version-controlled, and consistently compliant.
- Establish cost optimization, governance, and resource tagging practices that give clear accountability.
Minimum qualifications...
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience, and 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, solution engineering, enterprise architecture, or related technical roles.
- Proven experience leading the design, governance, and integration of secure GCP solutions, including landing zones aligned to FedRAMP High and NIST.
- Network architecture on GCP using Network Connectivity Center, multi-VPC designs, HA Cloud VPN, and Interconnect, including designs that meet Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems with GKE and serverless platforms, and leading application and data migrations to GCP.
- Strong proficiency with Terraform, plus hands-on cost optimization, cloud governance, and resource tagging.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a federal background investigation (Public Trust).
Preferred qualifications...
- Current Google Cloud Professional certification (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Cloud Network Engineer, or Cloud Security Engineer).
- Active Public Trust
- Experience supporting federal government programs, especially federal health.
- Knowledge of regulated environments: FedRAMP, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks.
- Understanding of zero trust principles, boundary protection, segmentation, and secure data flows.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in addition to GCP.
- Container security, TLS/mTLS and PKI, and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
Clearance...
Citizenship...
Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information
Citizenship...
Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
- Medical, Vision, Dental
- Paid Vacation & Sick Time
- Paid Federal Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Continued Education Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
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