GCP Migration Architect: Zero-Downtime & AI/LLM Ops

Tekgence Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

In this role you will define migration strategies for apps, databases, storage and AI services, guide IaC and CI/CD practices, and mentor engineering teams through complex cutovers and validation. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and execution of production migrations from Azure or AWS to GCP.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient GCP architectures aligned with business and application requirements.
• Define migration strategies for applications, databases, storage, caching, AI services, monitoring, and networking.
• Architect zero-downtime data migration approaches, including dual-write patterns, data reconciliation, validation, rollback, and cutover strategies.
• Design and evaluate LLM-based application architectures, including provider transitions and agent-orchestration frameworks.
• Guide infrastructure engineering teams on Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD orchestration, deployment sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Assess technical trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and migration options, presenting recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Lead architecture reviews and phase-gate discussions, ensuring that migration decisions meet reliability, security, performance, and business continuity requirements.
• Evaluate emerging Google Cloud agent technologies, including the Agent Development Kit (ADK), to inform future-state architecture decisions

Job description

In this role you will define migration strategies for apps, databases, storage and AI services, guide IaC and CI/CD practices, and mentor engineering teams through complex cutovers and validation. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential.