GCP Consulting Services USA
Expert Google Cloud Consulting for US Businesses — Senior, Hands-On, No Hand-Offs
Most GCP consulting engagements in the US follow the same pattern: a sales team closes the deal, a delivery manager runs the kickoff, and a rotating cast of consultants does the actual work. By the time someone senior looks at your architecture, decisions have already been made that are expensive to undo.
That’s not how I work.
I’m Amit Malhotra, a Principal GCP Architect with 20+ years of IT experience and 6+ years hands-on with Google Cloud, Terraform, GKE, and DevSecOps. I work directly with US engineering teams — from initial architecture decisions through production deployment — as the senior architect on every engagement, start to finish.
No sales layer. No junior delivery team. No hand-offs. You get a Principal Architect who writes the Terraform, designs the platform, and is accountable for every decision made.
My clients include regulated enterprises — financial services, healthcare, and large-scale retail — as well as high-growth SaaS companies and technology platforms scaling on GCP across the US market.
What US Businesses Actually Need From a GCP Consultant
The US market has no shortage of GCP consulting options. Large system integrators, Google-certified partners, offshore firms with US sales offices — they’re everywhere.
What’s genuinely rare is a senior GCP architect who works directly with your team, makes decisions based on your actual architecture rather than a framework playbook, and stays involved through implementation rather than handing off to junior resources after the engagement kickoff.
That’s the gap I fill for US clients.
When a US company is migrating to GCP, building a new cloud-native platform, dealing with a security incident, or trying to understand why their cloud costs are growing faster than their revenue — they need someone who can move fast, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver something that works in production. Not a proposal. Not a framework deck. A platform.
What Triggers Most US Engagements
New GCP Platform Build Starting on Google Cloud and need the foundation built correctly — landing zone, Terraform architecture, IAM hierarchy, network design, CI/CD, and security posture established before the first production workload goes in. The decisions made in the first 30 days of a GCP implementation define the technical debt you carry for the next 3 years. Getting them right from the start is the highest-leverage investment you can make.
AWS to GCP Migration Migrating from AWS to GCP is not a lift-and-shift exercise. IAM models are fundamentally different. Networking architecture works differently. The managed services that replace your AWS stack need to be evaluated and configured correctly for GCP. I’ve navigated this transition for US engineering teams and know exactly where the friction points are — and how to avoid the mistakes that turn a 3-month migration into a 12-month project.
Security & Compliance SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP — US regulatory requirements are specific and unforgiving. A GCP environment that wasn’t engineered with compliance in mind creates audit findings that stall enterprise sales, delay fundraising, and create real legal exposure. I design GCP environments where security and compliance are architectural properties, not afterthoughts.
GCP Cost Spiral Cloud costs growing faster than the business, with no clear explanation of why. Overprovisioned clusters, idle resources, storage that was never cleaned up, BigQuery queries scanning far more data than they need to. GCP cost optimization at US scale is significant — and almost always achievable without affecting platform performance or reliability.
Scaling Beyond What the Architecture Can Handle A platform that worked at 50,000 users starts showing cracks at 500,000. Architecture decisions that were reasonable at startup scale become bottlenecks at growth stage. I help US engineering teams redesign for scale without the big-bang rewrite — identifying the specific constraints and resolving them incrementally while the business keeps running.
GCP Consulting Services I Offer US Clients
Every engagement is scoped to what your team actually needs.
Google Cloud Architecture & Modernization
End-to-end GCP platform design — from multi-project folder structure and Shared VPC through GKE or Cloud Run compute strategy, Terraform IaC foundations, and operational architecture. For teams migrating from on-premises or AWS, or rearchitecting an existing GCP environment that’s grown beyond its original design. → Learn More
DevSecOps & Cloud Security
Zero Trust network architecture, Workload Identity Federation, least-privilege IAM, VPC Service Controls, secure CI/CD pipelines, and GCP security posture hardening. For US teams dealing with compliance requirements, security incidents, or enterprise customer security reviews. → Learn More
Platform Engineering / Internal Developer Platforms
GKE and Cloud Run platform foundations, standardized deployment pipelines, and internal developer platforms that give engineering teams a consistent, operable infrastructure layer. For organizations where every team is solving the same infrastructure problems independently. → Learn More
MLOps / GenAI Platforms
Production-ready infrastructure for machine learning and generative AI workloads on Vertex AI and Google Cloud. For US data and AI teams that need a platform built for production scale — not just a notebook environment with a Cloud Run wrapper. → Learn More
SRE / Observability
Cloud Monitoring, log-based alerting, SLO configuration, distributed tracing, and incident response runbooks. For US engineering teams that are reactive to production incidents rather than proactive — and want to change that. → Learn More
Cloud Architecture Advisory
Senior architectural guidance and fractional architect support for US engineering teams. For CTOs and VPs of Engineering who need a principal-level GCP architect for high-stakes decisions without a full-time hire. → Learn More
Why US Companies Choose Me Over Large GCP Consulting Firms
You work directly with a Principal Architect. At large consulting firms, the senior architect presents the proposal and disappears. The actual work is done by consultants who are learning on your project. I’m the person who scopes the engagement, does the architecture work, writes the Terraform, and delivers the outcome — from day one through completion.
I specialize exclusively in GCP. Not AWS. Not Azure. Not “multi-cloud.” Google Cloud, exclusively. That depth matters when you need someone who understands exactly how GCP’s identity model, networking architecture, and managed services work together — not someone who’s applying generic cloud patterns to a platform they know partially.
Flexible engagement model. Project-based, advisory retainer, or fractional architect arrangements — no mandatory long-term contracts, no minimum engagement size designed around a large firm’s billing requirements. Scoped to what you actually need.
Senior expertise at every stage. Architecture decisions made early define platform outcomes for years. Having a principal-level architect involved from the start — not brought in to fix problems after junior resources have already built something — is the difference between a platform that scales and one that needs to be rebuilt.
Built on the SCALE Framework
Every engagement follows the SCALE Framework — a structured methodology for building GCP platforms that remain secure, operable, and scalable long after initial deployment.
S — Security by Design: Identity, policy, and access built into the platform foundation from day one.
C — Cloud-Native Architecture: Resilient, distributed systems designed for real production scale.
A — Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Standardized, version-controlled, reproducible environments using Terraform.
L — Lifecycle Operations (DevSecOps): Integrated deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
E — Elastic Scalability & Efficiency: Performance and cost optimized as systems grow.
Let's Talk About What You're Building
If you’re a US business looking for senior, hands-on GCP consulting — I offer a free 30-minute architecture review. A direct technical conversation about where your platform is and what the right path forward looks like. No proposal upfront, no pressure.
📍 Operating across the USA — remote engagement, EST timezone. 📧 amit@buoyantcloudtech.com
Buoyant Cloud Inc. | Principal GCP Architect | Serving US clients across all industries Expert Google Cloud consulting for businesses across the United States
