Senior Google Cloud Engineer

Senior Google Cloud Specialist - Engineering and Migrations

We are seeking a seasoned Google Cloud Specialist with expertise in engineering and migrations to function as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in leading complex, large-scale project migrations between Google Cloud tenants (Organization-to-Organization). This role demands deep technical proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically across networking, IAM, project architecture, and established migration methodologies. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership and hands-on execution to design and implement secure, compliant, and highly scalable cloud environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning: Assess current cloud infrastructures and formulate robust, risk-mitigated migration strategies.
• Lead Project Migrations: Execute full life-cycle project migrations across different GCP organizations, ensuring end-to-end success.
• Execution Focus: Plan and perform the migration of critical GCP components, including: GCP Projects, Resource Hierarchy, and Organization policies; IAM roles (predefined and custom), Service Accounts, and policy bindings; Networking infrastructure (VPC, Shared VPC, subnets, firewall rules, peering); Billing accounts and configurations.
• Operational Continuity: Implement strategies to minimize downtime and maintain business continuity throughout migration phases.
• Risk Management: Conduct comprehensive risk analysis, dependency identification, and develop effective rollback plans.
• Validation & Documentation: Validate post-migration performance, security posture, and compliance. Provide detailed documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer to relevant stakeholders.
• Architectural Guidance: Act as a GCP SME for architectural reviews, complex troubleshooting, and security best practices.

Mandatory Expertise & Experience

• GCP Migration Experience: Proven, hands-on experience migrating production workloads and associated data across GCP organizations, complex Shared VPC environments, and IAM and identity configurations. Extensive experience with migration planning, impact analysis, and robust rollback strategies. Familiarity with automation tools, including CI/CD, Terraform, gcloud CLI, and Deployment Manager.
• GCP Engineering and Administration Expertise: Cloud Governance & IAM: Organization and Folder structure design, Resource hierarchy and organization policy management, Project lifecycle and billing configuration, Advanced understanding of predefined and custom IAM roles and Service Account management.
• Networking Architecture (Advanced Knowledge): Deep expertise in VPC architecture, design, and Shared VPC configurations. Experience with VPC Peering, Cloud VPN, Interconnect, and Private Service Connect. Firewall rules, routing, and hybrid connectivity (DNS configuration).
• Major GCP Services: Hands-on experience with core compute and data services, including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery. Proficiency in management and monitoring tools (Cloud IAM, Cloud DNS).

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in Cloud Engineering and Migration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Experience working with Azure and GCP PaaS services.
• Demonstrated strong experience in driving automation and process improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, monitoring, and logging.
• Excellent customer-facing, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business and operational challenges into technical solutions.

Nice to Have

• GCP architect certifications.
• Experience introducing enterprise automation tools or platforms.
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Scripting experience (Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.

Key Skills/Competency

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Cloud Engineering
• Cloud Migration
• Terraform
• IAM
• Networking Architecture
• CI/CD
• GCP Services
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management