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Job Description

Job Description: Role Description

- The GCP Technical Lead is responsible for leading end‑to‑end application and database migration initiatives to Google Cloud Platform.

- This role requires strong hands‑on expertise in designing cloud architectures, defining migration strategies, and guiding cross‑functional teams through the transition of on‑premise applications and databases to GCP.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Migration

- Lead full lifecycle GCP migration projects for applications and databases.

- Develop migration strategies including rehost, replatform, and rearchitect approaches.

- Assess on‑premise systems and define target‑state architectures on GCP.

Design and implement migration workflows using tools such as:

- Migrate for Compute Engine (M4CE)

- Migrate for Anthos

- Database Migration Service (DMS)

- Velostrata

Application Migration

- Assess dependencies, performance, and compatibility with GCP services.

- Re‑architect legacy applications using GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, or Compute Engine.

- Integrate GCP services including IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, and Secret Manager.

- Optimize application performance and cost post‑migration.

Database Migration

Lead database migrations (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) to:

- Cloud SQL

- BigQuery

- AlloyDB

- Spanner (if applicable)

- Perform schema conversion, capacity planning, and tuning.

- Ensure data integrity, minimal downtime, and rollback options.





Technical Leadership

- Provide direction to development and migration teams throughout the project lifecycle.

- Define cloud best practices, governance standards, and quality controls.

- Conduct technical reviews and ensure delivery excellence.

DevOps & Automation

- Implement CI/CD using Cloud Build, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub, or GitLab CI.

- Automate infrastructure with Terraform, Deployment Manager, or Ansible.

- Ensure logging and monitoring with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Security & Compliance

- Implement GCP security best practices including IAM, VPC Service Controls, firewall policies, encryption, and KMS.

- Align solutions with organizational compliance frameworks.

Essential Skills

- Strong hands‑on experience with GCP core services (Compute, Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL, GKE, Pub/Sub).

- Expertise in application and database migration to GCP.

- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.

- Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.

- Solid networking, DNS, firewall, and authentication knowledge.

- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

- Ability to drive technical decisions and mentor engineering teams.

Preferred Certifications

Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) Google Professional Cloud Database Engineer Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Requirements
Experience (Years): 8-10

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations

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📌 GCP Technical Lead – Cloud & Data Migration (Toronto)
🏢 Astra North Infoteck
📍 Toronto