GCP Architect - Canada (Remote)

Saransh Inc; Canada; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Saransh Inc is seeking an experienced cloud architect in Canada to lead complex migrations to Google Cloud Platform. The role emphasizes architecting live production migrations from Azure or AWS to GCP, leveraging Terraform and Harness for infrastructure and CI/CD, and guiding the engineering team with stakeholder communications.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years in cloud architecture, 3+ years on GCP, and familiarity with LangGraph/LangChain for agent-based applications, along with strong

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in an architect or lead capacity.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from another hyperscaler (Azure or AWS) to GCP.
• Deep knowledge of core GCP services: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Trace/Monitoring.
• Familiarity with Azure equivalents: Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights.
• Experience with LLM-based architectures and agent frameworks like LangGraph/LangChain, and comparing LLM providers for migrations.
• Experience designing data migration and dual-write/reconciliation strategies for zero-downtime production systems.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harness preferred).
• Strong stakeholder communication; able to present architecture trade-offs to technical and business audiences.
• Nice to have Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Experience with Google ADK for agent development decisions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP expertise

Azure/AWS migration to GCP

LangGraph / LangChain

Terraform

Harness CI/CD

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

Harness CI/CD

LangGraph

LangChain

ADK

Job description

Job Type: Contract

Candidates should be currently located in Canada

• 8+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in an architect or lead capacity.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from another hyperscaler (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-orchestration frameworks 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 systems with 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 & Agent Development Kit (ADK),for informing future-state agent architecture decision