Required Qualifications & Technical Experience
- 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.
- Hyperscaler Migration: Demonstrated experience designing and executing live production migrations from another hyperscaler (AWS or Azure) to GCP.
- Core GCP Stack: Deep working knowledge of GCP services relevant to this initiative:
- Compute & Data: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI
- Networking & Security: Cloud Load Balancing, VPC / Shared VPC, IAM, Secret Manager
- Observability: Cloud Trace, Cloud Monitoring
- Azure Equivalent Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of the source Azure services being replaced:
- Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights
- AI/LLM Architecture:
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based application architectures, including agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain).
- Familiarity with practical nuances across LLM providers when migrating (e.g., prompt behavior variations,



JSON-output reliability, context window vs. cost trade-offs).
- Data Migration & High Availability: Proven track record designing data migration, dual-write, and reconciliation strategies for live production systems with zero-downtime requirements.
- 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.
- Communication & Leadership: Solid stakeholder management skills; confident presenting architectural trade-offs, risks, and strategies to technical and business executives at phase-gate reviews. Nice to Have
- Certification: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
- Agent Frameworks: Experience evaluating or architecting with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) to inform future-state AI agent architecture decisions.

Skills:
gcp,architecture,application,cloud,google,adk,data migration,ci/cd,azure

📌 Principal / Lead GCP Cloud Architect (Canada)
🏢 Mega Cloud Lab
📍 Canada