GCP Cloud Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

Act as a customer-facing technical lead for GCP migration engagements, owning solution design and migration execution.
Assess existing on-premises and cloud workloads and recommend migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain).
Design and implement hybrid cloud architectures integrating on-premises environments with GCP.
Lead and execute workload migrations including compute, storage, databases, and applications to GCP.
Use and manage GCP migration tools such as Migrate to Virtual Machines, Database Migration Service (DMS), Transfer Appliance, and Storage Transfer Service.
Collaborate with security, networking, and platform teams to ensure migrations meet security, compliance, and performance standards.
Provide hands-on support for troubleshooting migration issues, performance tuning, and post-migration validation.
Create and maintain technical documentation, migration runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
Conduct customer workshops, technical deep dives, and knowledge transfer sessions.
Support pre-sales activities including technical discovery, solutioning, and effort estimation when required.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices and reusable migration frameworks.

Required Skills & expertise

6+ years of overall IT experience, with at least 3+ years in cloud technologies.
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services:
- Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM
- Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Spanner (preferred)
Proven experience in workload migrations to GCP from on-premises or other clouds.
Solid understanding of hybrid cloud architectures, networking (VPN, Interconnect), and identity integration.
Experience with Linux/Windows systems, virtualization (VMware), and containerized workloads.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Deployment Manager will be an advantage).
Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar is an advantage).
Good Networking knowledge: VPC/VNet, DNS, LB, SSL, routing
Excellent customer communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of science or engineering degree (or equivalent) or relevant field:
Google Cloud Certifications such as:
- Google Cloud Engineer Certification
- Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (good to have)
- Professional Cloud Network Engineer ( good to have)
Experience with SAP, Oracle, or large enterprise application migrations.
Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
Experience working in consulting or professional services roles.

Soft Skills