How do I regain ownership over a Google Developer Console project when the current owner has left the company?

Question

The background

• I added an employee to a Google Project in Developer Console a while back. For reasons unclear to me now, I added him as an Owner.
• I was then relegated to Editor role. He left the company and his GSuite account was deleted.
• We have used the service credentials for the project throughout many client accounts so recreating the project isn't an option
• We have recreated his email account, but there seems to be no way of resending an invite from the Google Project.
• The project belongs to no organisation (again, my mistake!)

The problem

I need to become the owner of the project again so I can remove him. How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Your best bet it to restore the GSuite account and assign it a new password and then use it directly. Outside of recovering the account there are no alternatives other than contacting GCP Support. To speed up the process provide as much documentation as possible to show that the previous owner no longer exists.

Not being in your organization may be a real hassle. Do they use the same associated billing accounts?

Imagine how this looks for GCP, a member on a project wants to be owner and they can't contact the original owner to get confirmation. If they make you the owner they are then responsible if you remove the original owner who did not actually want to make you an owner. They will likely link you to the account recover page, with a statement that they're not able to do it. Best of luck!