Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

EPAM Systems; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a seasoned Delivery Manager – GCP Cloud to lead large-scale cloud transformation, migration, and modernization programs. You will oversee end-to-end delivery through cross-functional teams and manage key stakeholder relationships to drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities include guiding discovery, migration waves, governance forums, and cost optimization while applying GenAI tools to planning and reporting, ensuring data security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud transformation and migration programmes.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders.
• Strong governance, risk, and budget oversight.
• Experience with Gen AI tools in delivery management.

Responsibilities

• Own programme delivery from discovery to operations with accountability for outcomes.
• Direct cross-functional, distributed teams across domains and regions.
• Assess architectures, migration strategies, and cost assumptions.
• Lead migration readiness, governance forums, and cutover activities.
• Collaborate with client leaders to translate constraints into business decisions.
• Establish delivery metrics on throughput, variance, and benefits realization.
• Drive FinOps practices and adoption of cloud governance.
• Support presales, estimates, and capability development; mentor teams.
• Apply enterprise GenAI tools to planning and reporting while safeguarding data.

Skills

Delivery management

Cloud transformation

GCP platforms

Executive reporting

Gen AI for delivery

Terraform IaC

CI/CD

Kubernetes (GKE)

Security & compliance

Cost governance

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ADO

Microsoft Project

Job description

We're looking for a seasoned Delivery Manager – GCP Cloud who can spearhead extensive cloud transformation, migration, and modernization initiatives, overseeing complete delivery cycles through cross-functional teams, managing key stakeholder relationships, and delivering strong business results.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of programme delivery spanning discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations, holding overall accountability for Project/People/Account Management
• Direct multiple cross-functional and distributed teams, handling scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance, while staying mindful of Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities
• Assess solution architectures and migration strategies, confirming application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions
• Lead migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR, etc., driving Go/No-Go decisions and coordinating cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance
• Collaborate with client business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations leaders to convert technical constraints into clear business impacts and decisions
• Set up delivery metrics covering migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization
• Champion adoption of cloud governance and FinOps practices, encompassing policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs
• Contribute to presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development, while mentoring delivery managers and technical leads
• Apply approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to enhance planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while safeguarding data and intellectual property

Requirements

• Between 9 and 17 years of IT delivery experience, with at least 5 years leading substantial cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes, plus experience overseeing multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and program execution through Agile & Hybrid methodologies
• Understanding of GCP resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects), IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Cloud KMS, and backup/DR concepts
• Awareness of migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor
• Capability to oversee identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements
• Proficiency in RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting
• Practical knowledge of project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) and application of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management
• Grasp of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers/Kubernetes (GKE), APIs, integration patterns, and SRE/observability fundamentals
• Skill in facilitating architecture reviews and communicating technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to both business and engineering audiences

Nice to have

• Hands-on exposure to Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, and foundation/landing-zone build-outs, coupled with familiarity in Google's structured migration methodologies
• Holding a recognized Google Cloud credential such as Digital Leader or Professional Cloud Architect, or a comparable industry-accepted certification
• Possession of programme-management credentials like PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or similar recognized qualifications