GCP Architect
- Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
- 8+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in anarchitect or lead capacity.
- Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from anotherhyperscaler (Azure or AWS) to GCP,
- Deep working knowledge of core GCP services relevant to this program: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL(PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM,Secret Manager, Cloud Trace/Monitoring.
- Working knowledge of the equivalent Azure services being replaced: Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB,Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights.
- Experience with LLM-based application architectures, ideally including agent-orchestrationframeworks such as LangGraph, LangChain and familiarity with the practical differences betweenLLM providers (prompt behavior, JSON-output reliability, context-window/cost tradeoffs) whenmigrating between them.
- Experience designing data migration and dual-write/reconciliation strategies for production systemswith zero-downtime requirements.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harnesspreferred, or equivalent), sufficient to guide - not necessarily implement - the infrastructureengineering team.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills; comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs and risk toboth technical and business audiences at phase-gate reviews.
- Good to have Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
- Nice to have experience in evaluating or architecting with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK),for informing future-state agent architecture decision
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Responsibilities
Design and guide a production migration from Azure or AWS to Google Cloud, including cloud architecture, data migration, and zero-downtime dual-write and reconciliation strategies. Present architecture trade-offs and risks to technical and business stakeholders, and guide infrastructure engineering on Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD approaches.
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of cloud architecture experience, including at least 3 years in a Google Cloud architect or lead role, and demonstrated experience migrating a live production system to GCP. Candidates should have expertise in relevant GCP and Azure services, LLM application architectures, zero-downtime data migration, and stakeholder communication; Terraform and a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification are preferred or advantageous.
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Cloud Storage
- Memorystore
- Vertex AI
- Cloud Load Balancing
- VPC
- IAM
- Secret Manager
- Azure
- LLM Application Architecture
- Terraform
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- Google Cloud Platform
- GCP
- Azure
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- Production Migration
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Cloud Storage
- Memorystore
- Vertex AI
- Cloud Load Balancing
- VPC
- Shared VPC
- IAM
- Secret Manager
- Cloud Trace
- Cloud Monitoring
- Azure OpenAI
- Cosmos DB
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Cache for Redis
- Application Insights
- LLM
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- Terraform
- CI/CD