Lead DevOps Engineer / Google Cloud Platform Platform Architect

Please focus on candidates with hands-on Google Cloud Platform DevOps experience. If such profiles are not available, please consider candidates with Cloud Platform Reliability Administration experience and strong Google Cloud Platform expertise.

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Google Cloud Platform Platform Architect to lead the design,
governance, and modernization of a cloud platform supporting a portfolio of business-
critical Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety applications.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving cloud architecture, platform
engineering, observability, automation, reliability, security, and application
modernization initiatives on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform). This role requires close
collaboration with engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders to
deliver a scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
Cloud & Platform Architecture
Define and govern enterprise cloud architecture standards on Google Cloud Platform.
Lead cloud adoption, modernization, and platform transformation initiatives.
Design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions.
Establish reusable platform services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
Observability & AIOps
Define enterprise observability standards across metrics, logs, traces, events,
and business KPIs.
Ensure adherence to cloud-native, security, observability, DevOps, and
performance standards.
Implement and enhance monitoring solutions using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud
Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and other popular AIOps tools.
Drive AIOps capabilities include anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, signal
correlation, and automated RCA.

Platform Engineering & Automation

Classification:
Internal

Lead platform automation and self-service engineering initiatives.
Define Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
Automate environment provisioning, monitoring onboarding, compliance checks,
and operational workflows.
Drive SRE practices, self-healing capabilities, and operational excellence.
Application Architecture Leadership & Governance
Review and govern architecture, integrations, APIs, and modernization initiatives.
Provide technical leadership across support, maintenance, and enhancement
programs.
Serve as the architectural authority for cloud platform initiatives.
Present architecture roadmaps and technical strategies to leadership teams.
Mentor engineering teams and promote engineering best practices.

Required Technical Skills
Excellent command of Google Cloud Platform and it s services
GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Compute Engine, Cloud
SQL, BigQuery, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC Networking, IAM, Cloud
Monitoring & Logging, Secret Manager
Gemani AI (Mandatory)
APIGEE (Mandatory)
Handson experience on AWS Platform
Observability & SRE
Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, APM & Service
Mapping, SLI/SLO Design, Operational Dashboards, AIOps Platforms
DevOps & Automation
Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins, Python,
Shell Scripting, CI/CD and Infrastructure Automation

Security & Compliance
Cloud Security Architecture
IAM & Access Control

Classification:
Internal

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Compliance & Governance Frameworks
GxP/CSV Experience (Preferred)

Preferred Experience
12-15 years of overall IT experience.
8+ years in architecture and technical leadership roles.
5+ years designing and architecting solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with enterprise-scale cloud platforms and observability programs.
Prior experience in Life Sciences, Pharmacovigilance, Healthcare, or other
regulated environments.
Experience working with global delivery and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Certifications
Google Cloud Platform Certification (Minimum Intermediate Level)
AWS Certification (Minimum Intermediate Level)
CKA / CKAD (Optional)
Terraform Associate (Optional)
TOGAF (Optional)