Job Title: GCP Architect Location Remote Canada Duration: 12-Month Contract

Job Description
8+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in architect or lead capacity.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from another hyperscaler (Azure or AWS) to GCP,
• Deep working knowledge of core GCP services relevant to this programme: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM, Secret Manager, and 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, and Application Insights.
• Experience with LLM-based application architectures, ideally including agent-orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and LangChain, and familiarity with the practical differences between LLM providers (prompt behaviour, JSON-output reliability, context-window/cost tradeoffs) when migrating between them.
• Experience designing data migration and dual-write/reconciliation strategies for production systems with zero-downtime requirements.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harness preferred, or equivalent), sufficient to guide—not necessarily implement—the infrastructure engineering team.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills; comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs and risk to both technical and business audiences at phase-gate reviews.
• Positive to have a 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 decisions

📌 GCP Architect (Canada)
🏢 Gala Solutions
📍 Canada