Senior GCP Cloud Architect - Data Platform & Migrations

Insight Global; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Architect to join a major client in the large food distribution sector. The role centers on building a scalable data lake on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and supporting the migration of data and applications from AWS to GCP.

This highly visible position partners with data architects, engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure that supports the organization’s long-term

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7+ years in IT industry.
• At least 3 years designing and supporting GCP infrastructure.
• Strong expertise across GCP services (networking, security, storage, compute, database).
• Experience with cloud migrations and enterprise transformation.
• Professional-level GCP certifications required (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect).
• Experience with IaC and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of GCP infrastructure for enterprise data platform.
• Architect and manage highly available, secure, scalable cloud solutions in GCP.
• Support migration of data workloads and infrastructure from AWS to GCP.
• Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and provide ops support.
• Develop migration strategies, assess environments, identify gaps, and propose remediations.
• Design and optimize core GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Spanner, Dataflow, Dataproc, IAM).
• Establish cloud governance, security, access controls, and cost optimization.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve cloud infra issues ensuring high availability.
• Drive IaC initiatives using Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Participate in architecture reviews and act as a technical leader for stakeholders.

Skills

GCP architecture

GCP networking

GCP security

IaC (Terraform)

DevOps practices

Cloud migrations

Stakeholder management

Communication

GCP certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Architect to join a major client in the large food distribution sector. The role centers on building a scalable data lake on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and supporting the migration of data and applications from AWS to GCP.

This highly visible position partners with data architects, engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure that supports the organization’s long-term