Senior GCP Architect
Washington, DC
Category: Architecture
Industry: Government
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -112026-109404
Date Posted: 11/08/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/Wbe1MP
Description:
On-site in Washington, DC
Our client seeks a Senior GCP Architect to serve as the principal technical authority for enterprise cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and platform automation across multi-tenant environments. The role provides governance over GCP landing zones, zero-trust patterns, and continuous authorization practices spanning Commercial, FedRAMP Moderate, and FedRAMP High enclaves. The architect will standardize Terraform-based automation, integrate CI/CD and continuous compliance, and lead portal-to-API orchestration for self-service provisioning. The role also defines secure integration patterns for enterprise AI services and enforces ethical AI controls.
Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Design, maintain, and govern multi-folder GCP landing zones using Assured Workloads for FedRAMP Moderate and High compliance with organizational policy, data residency, and CMEK via Cloud KMS.
- Define and enforce boundaries between shared services management and tenant application workloads, including firewalls, HA VPN, DNS, Infoblox, and connectivity hubs.
- Author and standardize modular Terraform with JSON/YAML parameters for landing zone vending, subnet allocation, and zero-trust IAM roles.
- Implement VPC Service Controls, Workload Identity Federation, service account governance, and fine-grained RBAC.
- Architect CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, including SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning in PR workflows.
- Establish continuous authorization baselines aligned to NIST SP 800-53 and FedRAMP with automated compliance validation and drift detection.
- Design centralized logging and monitoring with Cloud Logging sinks, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and downstream platforms such as Elastic Cloud or Splunk.
- Lead integration between user-facing portals and backend GCP APIs for self-service provisioning with standardized orchestration, state tracking, and error handling.
- Implement cross-boundary authentication using SAML 2.0, Entra ID, Keycloak, and OIDC federation.
- Define enterprise AI architecture standards for Vertex AI and Gemini, including PSC, VPC-SC, and CMEK for secure datasets and interactions.
- Oversee ethical AI controls, DLP, prompt security, and continuous monitoring of AI payloads.
Experience Requirements:
- 8+ years in cloud engineering, IT infrastructure, and DevSecOps with 4+ years as Lead GCP Engineer or Cloud Architect in complex multi-tenant environments.
- Proven GCP architecture with Shared VPC, Interconnect or HA VPN, Palo Alto NGFW, VPC-SC perimeters, and GKE governance.
- Practical understanding of FedRAMP Moderate/High, Assured Workloads, DoD Iron Bank, and continuous monitoring practices.
- Preferred multi-cloud awareness across AWS or Azure for identity federation and hybrid networking.
- Preferred Terraform expertise in modular design, remote state, plan/apply automation, dynamic data parsing, and drift resolution.
- Advanced knowledge of GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and branching strategies for immutable deployments.
Education Requirements:
- Must possess or be eligible for a Public Trust clearance.
- Preferred certifications: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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