Senior GCP Operations Architect

About the Role

540 is seeking a Senior GCP Operations Architect to support a mission-critical aviation platform that helps enable the safe and efficient operation of the nation’s airspace. The platform modernizes how time-sensitive safety information is managed and distributed through secure, near-real-time data exchange.

Working alongside Google technical advisors and customer operations teams, you will provide architectural guidance and day-two operational expertise across GCP infrastructure, security, resiliency, automation, and DevSecOps. This highly visible role requires a proactive technical leader who can resolve complex issues, strengthen operational readiness, and help ensure the reliability and availability of a platform that directly supports aviation safety.

Requirements

• Location: Remote within the continental United States
• Citizenship & Clearance Requirement: Per client requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens and currently hold or be eligible to obtain and maintain an FAA Public Trust
• Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)
• 540 Internal Thrive Level: Senior Platform Engineer

How You’ll Drive Impact

• Provide expert guidance on the architecture and operation of GCP networking, compute, security, storage, and supporting platform services
• Partner with customer operations teams to identify and introduce new tools, operational patterns, and cloud best practices that improve team productivity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency
• Serve as a primary point of contact for infrastructure and operations questions and technical escalations, providing Tier 3 troubleshooting across cloud infrastructure, Terraform deployments, and DevSecOps pipelines
• Quickly develop expertise and take ownership of unfamiliar technical or operational areas, providing guidance to customer and delivery teams as new challenges emerge
• Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies and technical forums, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning and reviews, technical syncs, scrum-of-scrums, operational reviews, postmortems, and technical retrospectives
• Review system metrics and logs to identify performance bottlenecks, stability concerns, and emerging risks; support root cause analysis and define sustainable, long-term remediation actions
• Assess and strengthen day-two operational readiness, including troubleshooting procedures, escalation paths, support-team preparedness, backup and recovery strategies, disaster recovery protocols, and high-availability configurations
• Provide guidance on Terraform module development, state management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD integration, and review GitOps and DevSecOps workflows to troubleshoot critical pipeline and deployment issues
• Support release-management activities, including the application and rollback of database releases
• Review and guide the development of runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting materials, and other operational artifacts to ensure they are accurate, complete, consistent, and aligned with the current architecture and recommended practices
• Review the Technical Design Document every two weeks, advise customer stakeholders on required revisions and document governance, and develop supporting materials for technical and architecture reviews
• Conduct weekly office hours for Infrastructure, DevSecOps, and Release Management processes
• Engage with the customer’s Change Control Board and Architecture Review Board to evaluate proposed configuration and architecture.