NOW HIRING GCP CLOUD MIGRATION ARCHITECT
NOW HIRING GCP CLOUD MIGRATION ARCHITECT
Role: GCP Cloud Migration Architect
Experience: 15+ Years
Location: Austin, TX Domain Area
Work Model: Hybrid 3 Days Onsite/Week
Employment: W2 Contract Only - USC
Role Overview
Seeking a highly experienced GCP Cloud Migration Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives across GCP, AWS, OpenStack, and on-premises environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead infrastructure and application discovery, dependency mapping, right-sizing, storage and licensing analysis.
- Develop GCP Cloud Foundation Reference Architecture, Best Practices and GAP Assessments.
- Design target-state architectures for compute, storage, networking, IAM, logging, HA and DR.
- Build and govern a scalable wave-based Migration Factory.
- Develop CloudOps, FinOps and SecOps operating models.
- Design DevSecFinOps CI/CD pipelines using Terraform/IaC.
- Integrate modern AI-driven testing into migration processes.
- Develop migration roadmaps, technical documentation and execution strategies.
Required Skills
- 15+ years enterprise software engineering, delivery leadership and global cloud infrastructure experience.
- Deep expertise in GCP: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL/Spanner.
- Strong AWS + GCP multi-cloud architecture experience.
- Hands-on Terraform / IaC.
- DevSecFinOps and CI/CD pipeline experience.
- Cloud migration factory and enterprise migration experience.
- Strong knowledge of HA VPN, Interconnect, Cloud Router, PSC, VPC Peering.
- Strong understanding of GCP landing zones, Shared VPC, IAM, security and networking.
- Experience with migration strategies involving minimal downtime and rollback planning.
- Strong stakeholder management and technical documentation skills.
Preferred Certifications
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect
- GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Initial Screening Candidates Must Be Prepared To Discuss
- Migration prioritization and wave planning across on-prem, AWS and OpenStack.
- Enterprise GCP Landing Zone design.
- Secure connectivity between GCP, AWS and on-prem.
- Identity architecture without service-account keys.
- Low-downtime migration and cutover/rollback strategy.
- GCP foundation gap assessment and remediation priorities.
- SQL Server migration target selection and minimal-downtime execution.
- Troubleshooting post-migration latency issues.
- Shared VPC vs. separate VPC architecture trade-offs.
- Choosing between Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run or remaining on-prem.
Email: rachael@sidramtech.com
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