GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Largeton Group • Chicago, IL, US • $200 / year • 1m ago

Title: GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Duration: Fulltime

Interview Type – Video Interview

Job Title GCP Cloud Migration Architect

Location Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Migration Leadership

Lead the end‑to‑end architecture and design for the migration from AWS to GCP.
Assess current AWS infrastructure and applications to define migration strategies and roadmaps.
Design scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient GCP architectures aligned with business goals.
Define workload migration patterns (rehost, replatform, refactor) and cutover/rollback strategies.
Translate AWS services to GCP equivalents (e.g., S3 -> Cloud Storage, EKS -> GKE).

Cloud Governance, Security & Compliance

Establish cloud governance policies, naming conventions, and tagging standards.
Implement security best practices for IAM, encryption, and network segmentation.
Embed DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and compliance checks.

Platform Engineering & Automation

Standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform/Terragrunt and integrate with CI/CD.
Automate provisioning, configuration, and environment management.
Maintain reusable IaC modules and enforce configuration‑as‑code principles.

Reliability, Observability & Operations

Define observability standards: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
Partner with SRE/Operations for capacity planning and performance tuning.
Optimize cloud costs through rightsizing, autoscaling, and FinOps practices.

Microservices & Containers Enablement

Apply microservices patterns for scalability and security.
Guide Kubernetes/GKE architecture and troubleshoot containerized workloads.
Optimize container performance and implement rollout strategies (blue/green, canary).

Release, Environment & Quality Engineering

Define environment promotion strategies and manage deployments/rollbacks.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to maintain quality gates.
Implement security and compliance checks throughout the deployment process.

Collaboration, Leadership & Mentoring

Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams for smooth migration.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
Estimate efforts and contribute to delivery planning.

Documentation & Transparency

Maintain architecture design documents, migration playbooks, and runbooks.
Document CI/CD processes, testing phases, and recommendations.

Post‑Migration Stewardship

Monitor GCP environments post‑migration for performance and cost efficiency.
Continuously optimize infrastructure and reduce technical debt.

Required Qualifications

Proven Cloud Architect experience across GCP and AWS, with hands‑on AWS -> GCP migrations.
Strong GCP knowledge (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery) plus core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS/DMS, API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, Redis).
Cloud networking, IAM/security, and monitoring/observability (Cloud Monitoring/New Relic/CloudWatch).
DevOps/CI‑CD expertise with Git/GitHub Actions and IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt; Cloud Deployment Manager a plus).
Containers & microservices: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE); autoscaling/HPA and load‑balancing fundamentals.
Scripting: Python and Bash; solid Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux/CentOS).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice‑to‑haves

GCP Professional Cloud Architect (or equivalent cert).
Deeper GCP services (e.g., Pub/Sub, GCE) and GitOps/Cloud Build familiarity.
Identity & secrets management (K8s Secrets, AWS Secrets Manager, Vault) and K8s security (network policies, RBAC/IAM).
API‑first delivery (REST/Swagger), build tools (Maven/Gradle), and Agile/Scrum exposure.
Production support/SLA experience and participation in international technical forums/meetings.

Soft Skills