Gcp Architect - Canada (Remote)

Job Type: Contract
Candidates should be currently located in Canada
8+ years in cloud architecture roles, with at least 3 years specifically on Google Cloud Platform in an architect or lead capacity.Demonstrated experience designing and executing a live production migration from another hyperscaler (Azure or AWS) to GCPDeep working knowledge of core GCP services relevant to this program: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL(PostgreSQL), Cloud Storage, Memorystore, Vertex AI, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Trace/Monitoring.Working knowledge of the equivalent Azure services being replaced: Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB,Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Cache for Redis, Application Insights.Experience with LLM-based application architectures, ideally including agent-orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain and familiarity with the practical differences betweenLLM providers (prompt behavior, JSON-output reliability, context-window/cost tradeoffs) whenmigrating between them.Experience designing data migration and dual-write/reconciliation strategies for production systems with zero-downtime requirements.Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD orchestration (Harnesspreferred, or equivalent), sufficient to guide not necessarily implement the infrastructureengineering team.Strong stakeholder communication skills;
comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs and risk toboth technical and business audiences at phase-gate reviews.Good to have Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.Nice to have experience in evaluating or architecting with Google & Agent Development Kit (ADK),for informing future-state agent architecture decision
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