Principal / Lead GCP Cloud Architect
Required Qualifications & Technical Experience

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Cloud Architecture Experience: 8+ years in cloud architecture roles, including at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in an architect or lead capacity.

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Hyperscaler Migration: Demonstrated experience designing and executing live production migrations from another hyperscaler (AWS or Azure) to GCP.

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Core GCP Stack: Deep working knowledge of GCP services relevant to this initiative:

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Compute & Data: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI

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Networking & Security: Cloud Load Balancing, VPC / Shared VPC, IAM, Secret Manager

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Observability: Cloud Trace, Cloud Monitoring

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Azure Equivalent Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of the source Azure services being replaced:

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Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights

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AI/LLM Architecture:

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Hands-on experience with LLM-based application architectures, including agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain).

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Familiarity with practical nuances across LLM providers when migrating (e.g., prompt behavior variations, JSON-output reliability, context window vs. cost trade-offs).

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Data Migration & High Availability: Proven track record designing data migration, dual-write, and reconciliation strategies for live production systems with zero-downtime requirements.

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IaC & CI/CD Guidance: Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harness preferred, or equivalent) sufficient to guide and direct infrastructure engineering teams.

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Communication & Leadership: Strong stakeholder management skills; confident presenting architectural trade-offs, risks, and strategies to technical and business executives at phase-gate reviews.

Nice to Have

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Certification: Google Cloud Qualified Cloud Architect certification.

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Agent Frameworks: Experience evaluating or architecting with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) to inform future-state AI agent architecture decisions.

📌 Principal / Lead GCP Cloud Architect (Canada)
🏢 Important Group
📍 Canada