Senior GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Saransh Inc; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Saransh Inc. is seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Migration Architect in Austin, TX for a contract role. You will lead end-to-end cloud migration initiatives, prioritize Google Cloud, and compare AWS and on-prem targets.

The role requires orchestration of a migration factory and development of migration roadmaps and target architectures. Responsibilities include discovery, blueprinting, design of robust target-state architectures, and building out CI/CD pipelines with AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise software and cloud infrastructure experience.
• Expertise in GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL/Spanner) and multi-cloud mappings.
• Certification: GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer preferred; AWS Architect Professional advantageous.
• Strong ability to create migration roadmaps, target architectures, and technical documents.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Application Discovery: assess and right-size infra, map dependencies.
• Foundation & Blueprinting: create GCP Foundation Reference & Best Practices; GAP analyses.
• High-Level & Detailed Architecture: design target-state architectures with core constructs.

Skills

GCP cloud-native services

Multi-cloud architecture

IaC Terraform

DevSecFinOps CI/CD

AI testing tooling

Migration planning

Stakeholder management

Cloud cost governance

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

DevSecOps tooling

Job description

Role: Senior GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - 3 days a week in the office)

Job Type: Contract

Experience: 10+ years

Role Overview

• We are seeking a highly experienced GCP Cloud Migration Architect to lead comprehensive cloud migration initiatives.
• This critical role requires guiding application placement strategies across diverse enterprise infrastructures, prioritizing Google Cloud while objectively evaluating AWS Cloud and on-premises Private Cloud targets.
• You will drive the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial asset discovery to the establishment of a scalable migration factory. Ability to create migration roadmaps, target architectures, and technical documentation

Strategic & Architectural Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Application Discovery: Conduct deep-dive assessments to right-size infrastructure, optimize storage tiers, analyze licensing, and map complex application dependencies.
• Foundation & Blueprinting: Develop a GCP Cloud Foundation Reference & Best Practices document and perform GAP analyses against current client foundations to establish a target-state Blueprint.
• High-Level & Detailed Architecture: Design robust Target State application architectures, establishing core foundation constructs for compute, storage, networking, identity management, logging, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR).

Execution & Operations (xOps)

• Migration Factory & Operating Model: Design and implement a scalable, wave-based Migration Factory, defining Pod/Squad operating structures and execution governance for automated VM and container migrations.
• xOps & Financial Governance: Develop a comprehensive xOps (CloudOps, FinOps, SecOps) Blueprint, incorporating pricing models, macro-level runtime cost estimates, and targeted adoption of Google s RAMP program.
• Advanced CI/CD & AI Tooling: Roll out complete DevSecFinOps pipelines utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to automate environment provisioning. Integrate modern, AI-driven testing frameworks to validate application functionality continuously throughout the migration lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven enterprise experience in software engineering, delivery leadership, and global cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in GCP cloud-native services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL/Spanner), alongside practical multi-cloud architecture mapping across AWS and GCP.
• Hands-on experience developing sophisticated IaC (Terraform) configurations, DevSecFinOps CI/CD pipelines, and integrating AI testing solutions.
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer certification preferred; secondary multi-cloud certifications (such as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional) are highly advantageous for application placement evaluations.
• Ability to create migration roadmaps, target architectures, and technical documentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.