Platform Architect - GCP (Canada)

Platform Architect - GCP (Canada)

16 Apr
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Quantiphi
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Canada

16 Apr

Quantiphi

Canada

About Quantiphi:

Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First digital engineering and consulting company focused on delivering high-impact Services and Solutions that help organizations solve what truly matters. We partner with enterprises to reimagine their businesses through intelligent, scalable, and transformative AI—driving measurable outcomes at the very core of their operations.

Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has tackled some of the world’s most complex business challenges by combining deep industry expertise, disciplined cloud and data engineering practices, and cutting-edge applied AI research. Our work is rooted in delivering accelerated, quantifiable business value—not just technology for technology’s sake.

Headquartered in Boston, Quantiphi is a global organization with 4,000+ professionals serving clients across key industry verticals, including BFSI, Healthcare & Life Sciences, CPG, MFG, TME etc. As an Elite and Premier partner to leading cloud and AI platforms such as NVIDIA, Google Cloud, AWS, and Snowflake, we build and deliver enterprise-grade AI services and solutions that create real-world impact.

We have been recognized with:

- 17x Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the last 8 years
- 3x AWS AI/ML award wins
- 3x NVIDIA Partner of the Year titles
- 2x Snowflake Partner of the Year awards
- Recognized Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst and independent research firms
- We offer first-in-class industry solutions across Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and more, powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators
- We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for the third year in a row- 2021, 2022, 2023

For more details, visit: Website or Linked In Page

Be part of a trailblazing team that’s shaping the future of AI, ML, and cloud innovation. Your next big opportunity starts here!

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Platform Architect to design, build, and evolve our core cloud platform infrastructure and shared services. This role is pivotal in defining the technical strategy, architecture patterns, and best practices for our platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency.



The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and a robust background in platform engineering and Dev Ops.

Role & Responsibilities:

- 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 new 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, Dev Ops 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?

- Make an impact at one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies.
- Upskill and discover your potential as you solve complex challenges in cutting-edge areas of technology alongside passionate, talented colleagues.
- Work where innovation happens - work with disruptive innovators in a research-focused organization with 60+ patents filed across various disciplines.
- Stay ahead of the curve—immerse yourself in breakthrough AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies and gain exposure working with Fortune 500 companies.

📌 Platform Architect - GCP (Canada)
🏢 Quantiphi
📍 Canada

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