GCP Cloud Migration Architect

NOW HIRING GCP CLOUD MIGRATION ARCHITECT Role: GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Experience: 15+ Years Location: Austin, TX Domain Area Work Model: Hybrid 3 Days Onsite/Week Employment: W2 Contract Only - USC Role Overview

Seeking a highly experienced GCP Cloud Migration Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives across GCP, AWS, OpenStack, and on-premises environments .

Key Responsibilities

Lead infrastructure and application discovery, dependency mapping, right-sizing, storage and licensing analysis.

Develop GCP Cloud Foundation Reference Architecture, Best Practices and GAP Assessments .

Design target-state architectures for compute, storage, networking, IAM, logging, HA and DR .

Build and govern a scalable wave-based Migration Factory .

Develop CloudOps, FinOps and SecOps operating models.

Design DevSecFinOps CI/CD pipelines using Terraform/IaC.

Integrate modern AI-driven testing into migration processes.

Develop migration roadmaps, technical documentation and execution strategies.

Required Skills 15+ years enterprise software engineering, delivery leadership and global cloud infrastructure experience.

Deep expertise in GCP: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL/Spanner.

Strong AWS + GCP multi-cloud architecture experience.

Hands-on Terraform / IaC .

DevSecFinOps and CI/CD pipeline experience.

Cloud migration factory and enterprise migration experience.

Strong knowledge of HA VPN, Interconnect, Cloud Router, PSC, VPC Peering .

Strong understanding of GCP landing zones, Shared VPC, IAM, security and networking .

Experience with migration strategies involving minimal downtime and rollback planning .

Strong stakeholder management and technical documentation skills.

Preferred Certifications GCP Professional Cloud Architect

GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Initial Screening Candidates Must Be Prepared To Discuss

Migration prioritization and wave planning across on-prem, AWS and OpenStack.

Enterprise GCP Landing Zone design.

Secure connectivity between GCP, AWS and on-prem .

Identity architecture without service-account keys.

Low-downtime migration and cutover/rollback strategy.

GCP foundation gap assessment and remediation priorities .

SQL Server migration target selection and minimal-downtime execution.

Troubleshooting post-migration latency issues .

Shared VPC vs. separate VPC architecture trade-offs.

Choosing between Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run or remaining on-prem .

Email: [email protected]

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