GCP Solutions Architect: Stateful App Migration & GKE

Persistent Systems Limited; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Long Service awards

Insurance coverage

Job summary

Persistent Systems is seeking an Enterprise/Cloud Architect to lead the migration of a large Java application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role requires a strong background in enterprise migration, stateful workloads, DNS-based service discovery, GKE, networking, and high-availability cloud architecture.

You will define the target-state GCP architecture, migration approach, and cloud enablement strategy; design stateful session management across cloud instances; implement DNS routing to

Qualifications

• 12 to 15 years of experience in enterprise/cloud architecture.
• Proven experience migrating large enterprise apps to cloud platforms.
• Hands-on with GCP and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Valkey/Redis caching solutions.
• Strong legacy modernization background.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration of a large monolithic Java app to GCP while preserving behavior.
• Define target-state GCP architecture and migration approach.
• Design stateful session and connection management across instances.
• Implement DNS-based service discovery to replace fixed-IP dependencies.
• Design DNS routing strategies to avoid hard IP coupling.
• Validate connectivity across GCP services and GKE.
• Design GKE for scalability, resilience, and stateful workloads.
• Validate app/session persistence during restarts.
• Design and implement Valkey/Redis caching for HA and scalability.
• Collaborate with application, network, security, DevOps, and platform teams.
• Define guardrails, patterns, and best practices for enterprise workloads on GCP.
• Design HA and failover strategies for business-critical apps.
• Review architecture designs, PoCs, migration plans, and artifacts.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and remediation needs.

Skills

GCP expertise

Kubernetes

Stateful apps

Migration experience

Cloud architecture

Tools

GKE

Redis

DNS routing

Job description

Persistent Systems is seeking an Enterprise/Cloud Architect to lead the migration of a large Java application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role requires a strong background in enterprise migration, stateful workloads, DNS-based service discovery, GKE, networking, and high-availability cloud architecture.

You will define the target-state GCP architecture, migration approach, and cloud enablement strategy; design stateful session management across cloud instances; implement DNS routing to