Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks an experienced Delivery Manager – GCP Cloud to lead large-scale cloud transformation programs and drive end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams while managing senior stakeholder relationships and ensuring successful business outcomes.

You will own multi-phase delivery from discovery to transition, review architectures, drive Go/No-Go decisions, and champion FinOps and security practices to enable efficient migration and value realization for clients.

Qualifications

• 9–17 years IT delivery experience, including 5+ years leading large cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes.
• Knowledge of GCP resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects), IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Cloud KMS, and backup/DR concepts.
• Familiarity with migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor.
• Ability to govern identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements.
• Expertise in RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting.
• Working knowledge of project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) and usage of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management.
• Understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers/Kubernetes (GKE), APIs, integration patterns, and SRE/observability fundamentals.
• Ability to facilitate architecture reviews and explain technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences.
• Nice to have Experience with Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, landing-zone/foundation programmes, and Google Cloud migration methodologies.
• Google Cloud certification: Google Cloud Digital Leader, Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent programme-management certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end programme delivery across discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations, with overall responsibility for Project/People/Account Management.
• Lead multiple cross-functional and distributed teams; manage scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance.
• Review solution architectures and migration strategies; validate application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions.
• Chair migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR; lead Go/No-Go decisions, coordinate cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance.
• Partner with client business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations leaders to translate technical constraints into clear business impacts and decisions.
• Establish delivery metrics including migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization.
• Drive adoption of cloud governance and FinOps practices, including policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs.
• Support presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development; coach delivery managers and technical leads.
• Use approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while protecting data and intellectual property.

Skills

Delivery management

Cloud transformation

GCP expertise

Stakeholder management

Agile & Hybrid

Program governance

GenAI tools usage

Tools

Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project

GKE

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Delivery Manager – GCP Cloud to lead large-scale cloud transformation, migration, and modernization programs, driving end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams while managing senior stakeholder relationships and ensuring successful business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end programme delivery across discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations, with overall responsibility for Project/People/Account Management
• Lead multiple cross-functional and distributed teams; manage scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance, with awareness of Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities
• Review solution architectures and migration strategies; validate application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions
• Chair migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR etc.; lead Go/No-Go decisions, coordinate cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance
• Partner with client business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations leaders to translate technical constraints into clear business impacts and decisions
• Establish delivery metrics including migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization
• Drive adoption of cloud governance and FinOps practices, including policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs
• Support presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development; coach delivery managers and technical leads
• Use approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while protecting data and intellectual property

Requirements

• 9 to 17 years of experience in IT delivery, including 5+ years leading large cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes, along with experience managing multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and program execution using Agile & Hybrid methodologies
• Knowledge of GCP resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects), IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Cloud KMS, and backup/DR concepts
• Familiarity with migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor
• Ability to govern identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements
• Expertise in RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting
• Working knowledge of project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) and usage of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management
• Understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers/Kubernetes (GKE), APIs, integration patterns, and SRE/observability fundamentals
• Ability to facilitate architecture reviews and explain technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences
• Nice to have Experience with Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, landing-zone/foundation programmes, and Google Cloud migration methodologies
• Google Cloud certification: Google Cloud Digital Leader, Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent programme-management certifications