66degrees

66degrees

Principal Cloud Architect

Remote, United States · Principal

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About the role

  • Our ultimate vision is to be the catalyst for a future where every business operates as an intelligent enterprise, with autonomous systems unlocking human potential.
  • At 66degrees, we believe in thriving through challenges and winning together.
  • These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people.

Responsibilities

  • Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with CIO/CTO/VP IT and Business leaders
  • Design Global Scale Systems: Lead the end-to-end architectural design of multi-region, highly available cloud ecosystems that support millions of concurrent users and petabyte-scale data processing.
  • Operationalize Generative AI: Design production-grade RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, ensuring LLMs are secure, reliably operate within capacity constraints and quotas, monitor and control token costs, and implement Enterprise security grade guardrails.
  • Zero-Trust Leadership: Design and lead the implementation of comprehensive security frameworks including BeyondCorp, VPC Service Controls, and advanced Identity Management (IAM) to protect sensitive workloads against sophisticated threats.
  • Regulatory Engineering: Architect technical controls that automate compliance for global standards (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR), ensuring the platform is "secure by design" and audit-ready at all times.
  • Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Google ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
  • Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
  • Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
  • Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
  • Assist in delivering technical solutions to meet customer functional needs and improve service reliability, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure builds/migrations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of GCP experience is a must.
  • Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
  • Proven experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing globally distributed cloud-based systems, with a strong understanding of API-first design principles and API management platforms.
  • Extensive experience with security (zero trust) and networking in cloud environments
  • Experience in containerizing workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Artifact Registry.
  • Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of GCP experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
  • Capable of advising and implementing CI/CD practices to clients using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy and concepts such as GitOps and GitFlow.
  • Excellent organizational skills and customer-facing communication.
  • Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams slide decks.
  • Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or Cloud Interconnect is a plus.
  • GCP Credentials: Professional Cloud Architect Certification plus any other Professional Cert (Data Engineer preferred) or L400 Generative AI skill badge. Additional certifications Kubernetes (CKA, CKS), or Terraform strongly recommended
  • 66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.
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Nice to have

  • GCP Credentials: Professional Cloud Architect Certification plus any other Professional Cert (Data Engineer preferred) or L400 Generative AI skill badge.
  • Additional certifications Kubernetes (CKA, CKS), or Terraform strongly recommended

Benefits

  • End-to-End MLOps: Scale the implementation of automated machine learning pipelines-from ingestion to model serving-using Vertex AI (or self-hosted oss models) to reduce the time-to-market for predictive insights.
  • Cross-Functional Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring other architects and engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Company info

  • We are looking for the right fit with our growing team of Principal level Architects as we solve previously "unsolveable" problems with the scale of AI.
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