GCP Technical Lead – Cloud & Data Migration

• 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.

• 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.

• Migrate for Compute Engine (M4CE)

• Migrate for Anthos

• Database Migration Service (DMS)

• Velostrata

• 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.

• Cloud SQL

• BigQuery

• AlloyDB

• Spanner (if applicable)

• Perform schema conversion, capacity planning, and tuning.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Align solutions with organizational compliance frameworks.

• 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.

• Strong networking, DNS, firewall, and authentication knowledge.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Ability to drive technical decisions and mentor engineering teams.

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