Lead Cloud Architect, GCP

About AllChrono

The role

What's in it for you

• Fully remote team — you must have a proper working environment. We do have an office in Dhaka if you need a working space (Ambalait, Girmairi).
• Contract / part-time, around 20 hrs/week. Full-time conversion is possible later based on performance and need. If you already have a full-time or part-time position, we don't expect you to leave it — as long as you're dedicated during your committed hours.
• Compensation: full-time range is 90,000 BDT – 200,000 BDT depending on skills and experience. Part-time / contract scales accordingly.
• Meetings happen in BD time evening or early morning.

What you have

• 7+ years focused on cloud architecture in production engineering, with the last 3+ in a senior or lead capacity where you owned an application layer at a real company (not your own project) — while staying hands-on, not just managing.
• Overall cloud architecture on GCP — networking, environments, IAM, deployment strategy, security boundaries, and cost management.
• Kubernetes infrastructure — preferably GKE or GKE Autopilot — including workloads, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, monitoring, and release workflows.
• Identity infrastructure operations — deployment, configuration, backups, upgrades, realm/client management, and high availability.
• Infrastructure for caching, queues, rate limiting, sessions, and background job coordination.
• Relational database infrastructure — provisioning, backups, replication, migrations, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Observability across the platform — logs, metrics, tracing, alerts, dashboards, uptime monitoring, and incident response.
• Security and compliance foundations — network isolation, least-privilege IAM, audit logs, encryption, vulnerability management, and data residency requirements.
• Exceptional architectural judgment without over-complicating. You understand you're building for a small, competent team — simple now, but with vision to scale.
• Find the balance against premature optimization.
• Ruthless in code review — you have OCD about correctness.
• AI-native setup — you've written code and debugged line by line in the past, and now operate at full leverage with AI (not as a crutch).
• BSc in Computer Science from a top university in your country.

Nice to have

• Mobile application release pipeline exposure.
• Strong EU / GDPR experience.
• Multi-region deployment experience.
• Deploying and scaling AI / ML workloads in production.

Who you are

• You set engineering standards — you don't lower them.
• You obsess over hypothetical chaotic situations on platforms and proactively account for them.
• Your code reviews take time — line by line, not "looks good".
• You own what you ship and approve; regardless of how you code, you take responsibility.
• You make and defend decisions, not just go with the flow. You'll sometimes disagree with the team and the CTO on technical matters and bring your own opinion.
• You're ethical, have high morals, are responsible, and respect your teammates.

Things to keep in mind

• We are building a small, competent, and agile team. This is not the place where we'll be happy with subpar work. We deeply understand and care about the quality of the work we produce.
• We're a well-funded GCC startup (Saudi-based). We operate with light deadlines. Plus points if you've worked in an early-stage startup before.
• There's no long onboarding — be prepared to hit the ground running.

How to apply

Apply on LinkedIn or email [email protected]. The team personally reviews every application — no need to reach out personally. If you're selected, you'll hear back very soon.

Interview process

1. Initial 20-minute screening video call (Google Meet).
2. Take-home exercise — should take less than 1 hour.
3. Panel interview with live coding / architectural discussion (no puzzles).
4. Final interview with the CEO.