Platform Architect - GCP (Hamilton)

About Quantiphi: Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First global digital engineering company that helps the world’s leading Fortune 1000 organizations transform bold ideas into measurable business impact. We go beyond building innovative AI technologies—we solve the problems that matter most to our clients. Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has built a proven track record of turning complex challenges into meaningful outcomes across industries. Headquartered in Boston, with more than 4,000 professionals worldwide, we partner with global enterprises to deliver large-scale digital, cloud, and AI-driven transformation. #SolvingWhatMatters We are an Elite and Premier partner to Google Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and other leading technology platforms, and our work has been recognized across the industry, including: - 21 Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the past 10 years - 3 AWS AI/ML Partner of the Year awards - 3 NVIDIA Partner of the Year awards - 3 Snowflake Partner of the Year awards - Rated Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst firms Quantiphi delivers First-in-class AI solutions across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services, CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, High-Tech, Telecommunications, etc., powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators. We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work—reflecting our commitment to our people and our culture. For more details, visit: Website or LinkedIn Page Job Description: What you will do: - Lead the architectural design and evolution of the cloud platform, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical vision,design of multi-tenant architectures where applicable, ensuring strict isolation and resource management. - Define the architectural patterns for microservices deployment, inter-service communication, and data management within the platform. - Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for microservices, data pipelines, and infrastructure. - Drive the selection and integration of current technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency. - Lead the design and implementation of Terraform modules for provisioning and managing all cloud infrastructure components. - Define automation strategies for platform provisioning, configuration management using Ansible, and environment setup. - Integrate IaC into the CI/CD pipeline for automated and consistent infrastructure deployments. - Architect and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for building, testing, scanning, and deploying microservices and infrastructure. - Implement automated testing strategies (unit, integration, performance, security scanning tools) within the pipeline. - Define and implement deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary) for workloads. - Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging) and distributed tracing. - Define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for platform services. - Architect disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) strategies for multi-region deployments. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to platform engineers, DevOps specialists, and development teams. - Collaborate closely with product owners, engineering leads, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into architectural designs. - Drive technical discussions, conduct architectural reviews, and make critical design decisions. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with significant hands-on experience in: - Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Cluster design, networking, security, workload management. - Pub/Sub, Databases, IAM, Workflows - Terraform: Extensive experience with IaC for GCP. - Security Services & GCP Networking (VPC, Load Balancers, DNS), API Gateway - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace. - Proven experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation. - Strong proficiency with Ansible for configuration management. - Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker) and the Kubernetes ecosystem. - Solid understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and API design. - Experience with security best practices, various scanning tools (e.g., for code, containers, infrastructure), and compliance frameworks. - Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Preferred Qualifications: - GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification. - Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio). - Familiarity with MLOps principles and tools. - Experience in a multi-tenant platform environment. What’s in it for YOU at Quantiphi? - Join one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies and make a real impact at scale. - Lead and collaborate with a high-energy team of talented, driven individuals solving complex, meaningful challenges. - Work with Fortune 500 companies and disruptive innovators in a research-driven environment with 60+ patents. - Stay ahead of the curve by gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies while continuously upskilling. Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.ca/job/2nziqs