Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect (Cloud Migration and Modernization)

Location: Austin, TX-----Only Locals

Experience: 8–12 years
Role: Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) Solution Architect – Cloud Migration & Modernization

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on, technically strong Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect who can independently own cloud architecture decisions, guide engineering teams, and communicate effectively with senior client stakeholders.

The candidate should balance strategic architecture expertise with practical implementation experience and be comfortable working on moderately sized but technically complex engagements.

Key Priority: We are looking for a technically credible, hands-on Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect who can take end-to-end ownership of cloud architecture, work closely with the Project Manager, and provide long-term technical leadership and continuity for the client engagement.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical execution of enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep Google Cloud expertise, strong infrastructure architecture skills, and proven experience migrating on-premises workloads to Google Cloud Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-optimized Google Cloud architectures.
• Lead technical assessments and migration planning for on-premises to Google Cloud Platform workloads.
• Develop cloud landing zones, reference architectures, migration strategies, and technical roadmaps.
• Design Google Cloud Platform networking, IAM, security, compute, storage, and database solutions.
• Define migration approaches including rehost, replatform, and refactor.
• Work closely with infrastructure, application, security, and DevOps teams to drive technical implementation.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, and solution design discussions with client stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot architectural challenges, identify technical risks, and recommend solutions.
• Ensure alignment with Google Cloud architecture best practices, security standards, and cost optimization principles.
• Provide technical leadership throughout migration, deployment, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12 years of IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or solution architecture experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on Google Cloud experience.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise on-premises to Google Cloud Platform migrations.
• Strong expertise in Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC, IAM, and Cloud Load Balancing.
• Deep understanding of hybrid networking, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, DNS, and firewall configurations.
• Experience designing Google Cloud Platform landing zones, multi-project environments, and cloud security frameworks.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, high-level designs (HLD), and low-level designs (LLD).
• Excellent communication skills with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Must be based locally in Austin, TX.

Certifications

Required:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.

Preferred:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Additional Google Cloud certifications.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience working at Google or within the Google Cloud partner ecosystem.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise data center migrations and infrastructure modernization.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Migration Center, Migrate to Virtual Machines, and database migration services.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud governance, and enterprise security compliance.
• Experience working directly with Google Cloud Customer Engineers and technical account teams.