Principal Architect, Infrastructure

Zencore

Cloud Engineer working with innovative companies on Google Cloud transformations at Zencore. Leading projects, mentoring teams, and engaging with clients on cloud strategy.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Working with our clients to understand their requirements and technical challenges.
Using this input you will develop solutions using cloud technologies and evangelize the value of your solution to the client team.
You will work with clients to develop estimates for the skills required and timelines to deliver Zencore projects.
You should be able to turn these estimates into a clear proposal or SoW.
You will act as the lead technical member of the project team, providing delivery and technical oversight.
You are responsible for keeping the technical delivery on track and unblocking when things are stuck.
While this is an architecture role, we expect you to be a hands-on practitioner; you should be comfortable doing both architecture and execution.
You will act as a mentor inside of the engineering organizations.
You are expected to be an expert in your technical domain, and you should be able to teach and enable others in order to up-skill the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Experience designing and implementing cloud native architectures based on modern SRE principles and best practices.
Hands on skills working with a major public cloud platform in a production setting, ideally GCP.
Comfortable working with common DevSecOps practices and tooling.
Ability to go deeper than most on one or more domains - Software Architecture, Tooling/Pipelines/DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Databases, and/or Networking.
Ability to learn quickly, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in Cloud, DevSecOps, and Software Development
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex engagements.
Strong communication skills; able to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients

Benefits

Comp & perks

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation and benefits.
Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Zencore is an equal opportunity employer.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud native architectureSRE principlesDevSecOps practicesKubernetesdatabasesnetworkingsoftware architecturetoolingpipelinescloud technologies

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsmentoringproblem-solvingability to navigate ambiguityability to learn quicklytechnical oversightclient engagementteam collaborationproposal developmentdelivery management

Certifications

Bachelor's degree