GCP Technical Lead – Cloud & Data Migration

Job Description: Role Description

• The GCP Technical Lead is responsible for leading endtoend application and database migration initiatives to Google Cloud Platform.
  
• This role requires strong handson expertise in designing cloud architectures defining migration strategies and guiding crossfunctional teams through the transition of onpremise 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 onpremise systems and define targetstate 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.
  
• Rearchitect 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 postmigration.
  

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 handson 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.
  
  

Preferred Certifications

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