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Senior GCP Migration Architect

PeopleNTech LLC
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Senior
3 months ago
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • BigQuery
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • DNS
  • Load Balancing
  • Network Security
  • Cloud SQL
  • Disaster Recovery
  • PCI DSS
  • HIPAA
  • SOC2
  • FedRAMP
  • BGP
  • EC2
  • Compute Engine
  • RDS
  • EKS
  • GKE
  • Cloud Run
  • Cloud Functions
  • IaC
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • FinOps
3 months ago
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Senior GCP Migration Architect
Location: Warren, NJ (Onsite)
Fulltime ($160 - $170K PA) Don't stop profiles on Salary
Bill Rate Contract - $100/hr on C2C
Indent: SF_OP_204213-1-1

About the Role
We are seeking a highly experiencedSenior GCP Migration Architect to lead complex, large-scale migration programmes to Google Cloud Platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role — not a purely advisory position. You will own the full migration lifecycle from discovery and planning through execution and post-migration optimisation, working directly with enterprise clients and internal delivery teams.
The ideal candidate has deep, proven experience in two distinct migration vectors:on-premises / data centre to GCP andcloud-to-cloud migrations (AWS or Azure to GCP). You will be expected to lead discovery workshops, define migration strategies, architect target-state GCP environments, and personally drive hands-on delivery using Google's native migration toolset.

Experience
  • 20+ years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, or IT transformation.
  • 5+ years of hands-on GCP architecture experience, with deep knowledge of GCP core services across compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.
  • Proven track record of leading end-to-end data centre to GCP migration programmes — from discovery through cutover — at enterprise scale (100+ workloads).
  • Demonstrated experience leading cloud-to-cloud migrations (AWS-to-GCP or Azure-to-GCP), including workload re-mapping, service equivalence design, and cross-cloud data transfer.
  • Hands-on experience withGoogle's native migration tools — Migrate to Virtual Machines, Database Migration Service, Storage Transfer Service, BigQuery Data Transfer Service — not just awareness of them.
  • Hands-on experience withGCP landing zone design — resource hierarchy, shared VPC, organisation policies, IAM, and security controls.
  • Experience leadingdiscovery and planning phases of migration programmes, including dependency mapping, wave planning, workload classification, and MRA delivery.
  • Strong command ofGCP networking — VPC design, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, DNS, load balancing, and network security controls.
  • Experience withdatabase migration on GCP — Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigQuery — including heterogeneous migrations using DMS.

Key Responsibilities

Migration Strategy & Discovery
  • Lead end-to-endmigration discovery and planning engagements — including application portfolio analysis, dependency mapping, workload classification, and migration readiness assessments.
  • Conduct structureddiscovery workshops with client infrastructure, application, and business teams to build a comprehensive inventory of workloads, interdependencies, and migration constraints.
  • Develop and maintainmigration wave plans, sequencing workloads based on complexity, risk, business criticality, and dependency chains.
  • Classify workloads across the migration spectrum — Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-purchase, Retire — and develop workload-specific migration patterns and playbooks.
  • Build detailedmigration business cases including TCO analysis, ROI modelling, risk assessment, and phased investment roadmaps.
  • Define and own theMigration Readiness Assessment (MRA) framework, identifying gaps in people, process, and technology that must be addressed before migration begins.
  • Lead go/no-go decision frameworks for migration wave approvals, cutover readiness gates, and rollback criteria.

GCP Architecture & Landing Zone Design
  • Architect secure, scalable, and compliantGCP landing zones using Google Cloud's enterprise foundation blueprints — including resource hierarchy (Organisation, Folders, Projects), IAM strategy, VPC design, and shared services architecture.
  • Designhub-and-spoke and shared VPC network topologies, incorporating Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Private Google Access, and DNS architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Define security architecture aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements — including organisation policies, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Armor, CMEK (Customer-Managed Encryption Keys), and Cloud IAM least-privilege design.
  • Designmulti-region and multi-zone high-availability architectures aligned with client RTO/RPO objectives and disaster recovery requirements.
  • Architect GCP environments for compliance with relevant frameworks (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP) where required.

Data Centre to GCP Migration
  • Lead the architecture and delivery ofon-premises to GCP migrations, covering compute (VMs, bare metal), storage, databases, and networking infrastructure.
  • Design and implement migration solutions usingGoogle's native migration toolset including:
    • Migrate to Virtual Machines (formerly Velostrata) for VM lift-and-shift
    • Database Migration Service (DMS) for homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations
    • Storage Transfer Service andTransfer Appliance for large-scale data movement
    • BigQuery Data Transfer Service for analytics workload migrations
    • Google Cloud Marketplace migration partner tools where applicable
  • Define and executecutover plans with minimal downtime, including pre-cutover validation, parallel-run strategies, and rollback procedures.
  • Manage network connectivity establishment — Cloud Interconnect provisioning, BGP routing design, DNS cutover sequencing, and firewall rule migration.

Cloud-to-Cloud Migration (AWS / Azure to GCP)
  • Leadcloud-to-cloud migration programmes, including AWS-to-GCP and Azure-to-GCP workload migrations across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.
  • Performservice mapping and equivalence analysis — translating AWS/Azure architectural patterns to GCP equivalents (e.g. EC2 → Compute Engine, RDS → Cloud SQL, EKS → GKE, S3 → Cloud Storage, Lambda → Cloud Run/Cloud Functions).
  • Identify and manageplatform-specific migration risks — licensing changes, API incompatibilities, networking topology differences, IAM model translations, and cost model shifts.
  • Design re-platforming strategies for workloads that require modernisation as part of cloud-to-cloud migration, including containerisation to GKE and serverless migration to Cloud Run.
  • Leveragecloud-to-cloud data transfer tools and design network pathways for efficient, cost-effective cross-cloud data movement at scale.
  • Develop and presentcomparative architecture analyses to clients, articulating GCP advantages, migration trade-offs, and target-state optimisation opportunities.

Delivery Leadership & Governance
  • Serve as thesenior technical authority on migration engagements, providing architectural guidance and technical decision-making across all workstreams.
  • Lead and mentor a team of GCP engineers, cloud architects, and migration specialists, ensuring delivery quality and consistency across the programme.
  • Owntechnical governance — architecture decision records (ADRs), design review processes, technical risk registers, and quality gates for migration deliverables.
  • Present migration progress, risks, and architectural decisions to client CTO/CIO and engineering leadership with clarity and confidence.
  • Collaborate with project and programme managers to ensure migration milestones, wave plans, and client commitments are met.
  • Drivepost-migration optimisation — cost rightsizing, performance tuning, observability implementation, and Well-Architected review against Google Cloud's framework.
Required Qualifications
Certifications
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect — mandatory. This is a non-negotiable requirement.
  • Additional Google Cloud certifications strongly preferred (see below).

Skills
  • Exceptional ability to leadexecutive-level conversations on migration strategy, risk, and architectural trade-offs.
  • Strong written communication skills — able to produce high-quality architecture documents, migration playbooks, and client-facing deliverables independently.
  • Experience working inconsulting or systems integration environments managing complex client engagements (preferred but not mandatory for strong internal enterprise candidates).
  • Familiarity withIaC tooling for GCP — Terraform (preferred), Cloud Deployment Manager, or Pulumi.
Understanding ofFinOps principles and GCP cost optimisation — Committed Use Discounts, rightsizing, storage class optimisation, and sustained use discount modelling.

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