Senior consultant - gcp cloud infrastructure architect

Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 135134
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Brossard, QC; Burlington, ON; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fredericton, NB; Halifax, NS; Kitchener, ON; Laval, QC; Moncton, NB; Montreal, QC; Ottawa, ON; Quebec City, QC; Regina, SK; Saint John, NB; Saskatoon, SK; St. John's, NL; Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Winnipeg, MB

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By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Have many careers in one Firm.
• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching

As our ideal candidate, you will combine deep GCP technical expertise with client-facing consulting skills. On a typical engagement you will:

• Design and deliver GCP landing zones - organization, folder, and project hierarchies; IAM; VPC-SC service perimeters; Shared VPC and hybrid connectivity; logging and monitoring backbone.
• Architect containerized platforms on GKE (and GKE Enterprise where the client needs hybrid or multi-cluster); design networking, service mesh, and workload identity patterns.
• Lead migrations from on-prem and other clouds - lift-and-shift on Compute Engine and GCVE, replatform to GKE and Cloud Run, refactor to managed services - with clear cost, risk, and cutover plans.
• Establish the security posture: CIS benchmarks, Security Command Center, Binary Authorization, secret management, key management (CMEK/HSM), org policies, and compliance evidence for the client's control framework.
• Automate everything as code with Terraform (and Config Controller / Config Sync where appropriate); build CI/CD pipelines on Cloud Build or GitHub Actions; drive FinOps practices with dashboards and budget guardrails.
• Lead 2-4 engineers on the delivery team and mentor client platform teams for long-term self-sufficiency.

The focus and passion of Deloitte's Cloud Engineering practice is to help our clients become a place where their employees are passionate about the work they do, and can dramatically accelerate the speed at which they deliver value. We are a specialized capability within our technology consulting practice in Canada, focused on the technical, organizational, and cultural elements that must be considered when helping our clients embrace the Cloud mindset. With an established foothold in the Cloud domain, we are excited to be growing our Google Cloud footprint - including Gemini Enterprise agentic solutions - to continue to enable our clients. Our key clients span industries including financial services, energy and resources, consumer and retail, digital-native, and public sector.

This is a Senior Consultant role: 7-10 years of total experience with 4-6 years hands-on on Google Cloud (or equivalent cloud with a credible GCP transition path). You will lead workstreams and mentor 2-4 junior team members while working under the direction of a Manager or Senior Manager.

• 7-10 years total technology experience; 4-6 years hands-on on Google Cloud (or credible transition from AWS/Azure).
• Deep experience with GCP core services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, VPC and hybrid networking (Cloud Interconnect, VPN, Cloud NAT), Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Armor.
• patterns for agent runtimes, egress controls, and cost guardrails for GenAI consumption.
• Strong security background: IAM design, VPC Service Controls, org policies, Security Command Center, Binary Authorization, KMS/CMEK, secret management.
• Fluency with Infrastructure as Code - Terraform is required; familiarity with Config Controller, Config Sync, or Crossplane is a plus.
• Container and orchestration depth: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm; service mesh (Istio / Anthos Service Mesh) and workload identity.
• CI/CD experience with Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or GitLab; DevOps and SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems).
• Working knowledge of the platform requirements for Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI workloads - private connectivity, VPC-SC around AI/data services, workload-identity
• FinOps and cost-optimization experience - including visibility and guardrails for GenAI / Vertex AI consumption alongside traditional compute and data.
• Strong client-facing communication; ability to lead technical discovery workshops and land architecture decisions with senior stakeholders.

• GCP certification (Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, or Professional Cloud Security Engineer).
• GKE Enterprise experience for multi-cluster or hybrid deployments.
• GCVE (Google Cloud VMware Engine) migration experience.
• Apigee or Cloud API Gateway experience for API-management scenarios.
• Prior professional-services or regulated-industry (financial services, public sector) experience.
• Security Clearance (Reliability / Secret)

Quebec Locations: Bilingualism in French and English is required for this position due to the nature of the role having interactions with National & Global clients and project teams.

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $138,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

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We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles - and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors.

The next step is yours

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively - that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.

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