Description

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 (positive 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

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable working in a hybrid work environment.
- Team-oriented mindset with positive approach capabilities.

Responsibilities

OK

Qualifications

OK

📌 GCP Cloud Engineer (India)
🏢 Zensar Technologies
📍 India