Google Cloud Architecture & Engineering

GCP Architecture Design

Organization & Project Structure

• Organization-level governance design
• Project segmentation strategy
• IAM least-privilege modeling
• Folder-based policy enforcement
• Service account governance

VPC & Network Architecture

• Custom VPC design
• Shared VPC architecture
• Subnet segmentation strategy
• Private Google Access configuration
• Cloud Router & VPN configuration
• Interconnect planning

High Availability Engineering

• Multi-zone architecture
• Regional failover design
• Global load balancing strategy
• Managed instance group engineering
• Cross-region disaster recovery planning

Compute & Workload Engineering

• Compute Engine optimization
• Instance right-sizing analysis
• Committed Use Discount modeling
• Preemptible VM strategy
• Disk performance tuning
• Hardened image builds
• Autoscaling policy engineering

Database & Data Platform Architecture

• Cloud SQL architecture
• High availability database deployments
• Read replica strategy
• BigQuery cost optimization
• BigQuery query performance tuning
• Backup & restore validation
• Storage growth forecasting

Storage & Data Architecture

• Persistent Disk performance modeling
• Cloud Storage lifecycle policies
• Multi-region bucket strategy
• Archival tier optimization
• Snapshot automation
• Data retention governance

Google Cloud Security Engineering

Identity & Access Management

• IAM least-privilege enforcement
• Role customization strategy
• Service account key rotation
• Access lifecycle automation
• Multi-factor authentication enforcement

Network Security

• Firewall rule auditing
• Private service connectivity
• Cloud Armor configuration
• Secure bastion architecture
• Zero-trust network modeling

Monitoring & Audit

• Cloud Audit Logs configuration
• Security Command Center integration
• Threat detection alerting
• Log aggregation pipelines
• Suspicious API activity detection

Cost Optimization & Financial Governance

• Billing account analysis
• Labeling strategy for cost tracking
• Budget alerts & enforcement
• Committed use coverage analysis
• Idle resource detection
• Waste elimination audits
• BigQuery spend control mechanisms

DevOps & Automation on GCP

• Terraform-based GCP deployments
• Infrastructure-as-Code modularization
• CI/CD integration
• Drift detection & remediation
• Blue/Green deployment strategy
• Automated environment provisioning

Monitoring & Operational Excellence

• Cloud Monitoring metric engineering
• Custom dashboards
• Alert policy optimization
• SLA tracking
• Capacity forecasting
• Automated remediation workflows

Migration & Modernization

• On-prem to GCP migration planning
• Lift-and-shift strategy
• Re-platforming architecture
• Legacy system modernization
• Downtime minimization orchestration
• Validation & rollback planning

Incident Response & Recovery

• Security incident response playbooks
• Credential compromise remediation
• Forensic log preservation
• Disaster recovery validation
• Post-incident cost analysis