GCP Cloud Architect

SWITS DIGITAL Private Limited; Chennai; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced GCP Cloud Architect for Chennai with 10+ years of experience. The role focuses on designing and implementing cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform, including migration projects across GCP and Azure and basic AWS comprehension.

Key responsibilities include designing scalable, secure cloud architectures, leading migration efforts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure governance, cost optimization, and high availability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable, secure GCP solutions.
• Hands-on GCP migration experience (GCP-Azure or Azure-GCP).
• Strong knowledge of GCP networking, IAM, and landing-zone architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable GCP solutions.
• Lead cloud migration projects involving GCP and Azure.
• Develop migration roadmaps and architectures for workloads.
• Work on workload migration, modernization, networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, and databases.
• Design Hybrid/Multi-Cloud architectures across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams.
• Ensure security, governance, cost optimization, HA, and DR best practices.

Skills

GCP Architecture

Cloud Migration

Azure-GCP Migration

Networking & Security

Collaboration with DevOps

HA/DR Design

Tools

Terraform

GCP Services

Job description

Job Description GCP Cloud Architect

Job Title: GCP Cloud Architect

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Chennai

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced GCP Cloud Architect with strong expertise in designing and implementing cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform. The candidate should have hands-on experience in cloud migration projects, particularly GCP Azure or Azure GCP migrations, along with basic knowledge of AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and highly available GCP cloud solutions.
• Lead cloud migration projects involving GCP Azure environments.
• Assess existing infrastructure and develop cloud migration strategies, roadmaps, and architecture.
• Work on workload migration, modernization, networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, and databases.
• Design Hybrid/Multi-Cloud architectures across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams.
• Ensure cloud solutions follow security, governance, cost optimization, HA, and DR best practices.
• Troubleshoot and optimize cloud infrastructure and migration issues.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong experience in GCP Cloud Architecture.
• GCP services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Monitoring.
• Strong understanding of GCP networking, security, IAM, and landing-zone architecture.
• Hands-on GCP migration experience.
• Experience in GCP to Azure OR Azure to GCP migration.
• Knowledge of cloud assessment, migration planning, workload discovery, and modernization.
• Good understanding of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with HA, DR, backup, security, and disaster recovery architecture.