Cloud Migration Lead Engineer

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Experience: 10+ years in IT infrastructure and cloud technologies, including 5+ years in cloud migration delivery.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Migration Technical Lead to lead enterprise migration engagements, primarily to AWS, with Microsoft Azure experience considered a strong advantage.

The successful candidate must combine hands-on technical expertise with the ability to lead migration teams, own technical decisions, manage customer expectations, and deliver migrations from discovery through cutover and hypercare.

This is a delivery-focused technical leadership role, not a pure solution architecture, consulting, or project management position.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery of cloud migration projects, from discovery and assessment through planning, execution, cutover, and stabilization.
• Design and validate migration strategies for VMware, physical and virtual servers, Windows/Linux workloads, and enterprise applications.
• Lead application dependency assessments, migration wave planning, sequencing, rollback planning, and technical risk management.
• Define workload migration approaches, including rehost, replatform, and selective modernization.
• Lead technical discussions with customers and coordinate Cloud Foundation, Migration Execution, Networking, Security, and application teams.
• Review AWS Landing Zone readiness, connectivity, IAM, networking, security, and operational requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex migration failures and support critical production cutovers.
• Act as the customer-facing technical anchor across multiple delivery PODs.
• Maintain architecture decisions, migration runbooks, technical documentation, and stage-gate acceptance criteria.
• Mentor engineers, validate technical estimates, and improve migration automation and repeatability.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Demonstrated hands-on experience leading production migrations to AWS, preferably across multiple enterprise customers.
• Strong AWS infrastructure expertise: EC2, EBS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, and related services.
• Practical experience with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and workload migration tooling.
• Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Linux, DNS, Active Directory, storage, and networking.
• Experience with migration discovery, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, testing, and rollback strategies.
• Ability to diagnose connectivity, performance, replication, operating system, and application-related migration issues.
• Understanding of AWS security, hybrid connectivity, IAM, routing, and network segmentation.
• Experience leading engineers and communicating technical risks to customers and stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Microsoft Azure migration experience, including Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery.
• AWS Transform, RiverMeadow, CloudHedge, or comparable migration
• accelerators.
• Azure VMware Solution (AVS), VMware HCX, or NSX.
• Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or CI/CD automation.
• AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, VPN, firewalls, and advanced hybrid networking.
• Database migrations using AWS DMS or native database migration technologies.
• Experience with regulated environments, security compliance, or complex enterprise transformations.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified Advanced Networking certification.

Expected Outcomes

• Independently lead customer migration engagements with minimal technical supervision.
• Coordinate delivery across shared PODs without losing customer context or technical accountability.
• Reduce migration failures, technical escalations, and cutover risks.
• Improve migration repeatability, delivery quality, and engineering productivity.

Critical selection criterion: Candidates must demonstrate real production migration experience, including examples of migration challenges, failures, cutovers, and lessons learned.

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