GCP Architect

Job summary

Design and guide a production migration from Azure or AWS to Google Cloud Platform, including cloud architecture, data migration, and zero-downtime dual-write and reconciliation strategies. Advise infrastructure teams on implementation and present architecture trade-offs and risks to technical and business stakeholders at phase-gate reviews.

Job details

Job Description: 12+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in anarchitect or lead capacity. • Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from anotherhyperscaler (Azure or AWS) to GCP, • Deep working knowledge of core GCP services relevant to this program: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL(PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM,Secret Manager, Cloud Trace/Monitoring. • Working knowledge of the equivalent Azure services being replaced: Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB,Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights. • Experience with LLM-based application architectures, ideally including agent-orchestrationframeworks such as LangGraph, LangChain and familiarity with the practical differences betweenLLM providers (prompt behavior, JSON-output reliability, context-window/cost tradeoffs) whenmigrating between them. • Experience designing data migration and dual-write/reconciliation strategies for production systemswith zero-downtime requirements. • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harnesspreferred, or equivalent), sufficient to guide — not necessarily implement — the infrastructureengineering team. • Strong stakeholder communication skills; comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs and risk toboth technical and business audiences at phase-gate reviews. • Good to have Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. • Nice to have experience in evaluating or architecting with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK),for informing future-state agent architecture decision

What you’ll do

Design and guide a production migration from Azure or AWS to Google Cloud Platform, including cloud architecture, data migration, and zero-downtime dual-write and reconciliation strategies. Advise infrastructure teams on implementation and present architecture trade-offs and risks to technical and business stakeholders at phase-gate reviews.

Requirements

Requires 12+ years in cloud architecture and at least 3 years in an architect or lead capacity on Google Cloud Platform, with demonstrated experience migrating a live production system from Azure or AWS. Candidates should have strong knowledge of relevant GCP and Azure services, LLM application architectures, data migration strategies, Terraform, and CI/CD; a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is a plus.

Listed skills

• Microsoft Azure · Preferred
• CI/CD · Preferred
• Amazon Web Services · Preferred
• Terraform · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Cloud Architecture
• Google Cloud Platform
• Azure
• AWS
• Production Migration
• Cloud Run
• Cloud SQL
• Vertex AI
• LLM Application Architecture
• LangGraph
• LangChain
• Data Migration
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Stakeholder Communication
• Infrastructure as Code

Job areas

• Technology
• Software
• Engineering
• Management & Leadership

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