GCP Architect

AllianceIT Inc; Canada; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AllianceIT Inc. is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect in Canada to lead Google Cloud Platform efforts, including live migrations from Azure or AWS, design of core GCP services, and engineering collaboration across teams.

The role emphasizes migration planning, multi-cloud considerations, and architectural governance for production systems with zero downtime.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP experience

Stakeholder communication

Migration planning

Education

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (certification)

Tools

Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

Cloud Storage

Memorystore

Vertex AI

Cloud Load Balancing

VPC/Shared VPC

IAM

Secret Manager

Cloud Trace/Monitoring

Terraform

Harness

LangGraph

LangChain

Job description

• 8+ 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