Senior GCP Operations Architect

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.

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
WHY 540 ?

540 is a forward-thinking company that the government turns to in order to #getshitdone. We don’t just talk about innovation – we deliver it. We break down barriers, build impactful technology, and solve mission-critical problems.
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 architectural changes

- Research relevant GCP services and architectural components to inform technical recommendations and customer decision-making

- Maintain accurate and detailed activity, status, and task information in Jira