Cloud Migration

Summary: The Cloud Migration role involves collaborating with Product Owners, Architects, and Application Owners to develop cloud migration strategies utilizing Azure and Google Cloud platforms. The position requires engineering automated solutions for efficient workload migration and optimizing infrastructure through various modernization techniques. Strong leadership, communication skills, and expertise in cloud services are essential for successful execution of migration projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owners, Architects and Application Owners to design cloud migration strategies using Azure Migrate and Google Cloud Migration Center.
• Produce designs and supporting design/architectural decisions for cloud migration solution(s) enabling seamless migrations cloud to cloud, and on-prem to resilient cloud landing zones (Azure and GCP).
• Engineer automated solution(s) using Infrastructure as Code and orchestration tooling to fast-track assessment and migration of workloads with minimum downtime.
• Optimise infrastructure and modernise applications through rehosting, refactoring, and re-architecting where beneficial.
• Utilise Azure Migrate and Google Cloud Migration Center for server, storage, database, and application discovery and migration.

Key Skills:

• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Comfortable working to Agile methodologies.
• Experience of mass-migration workloads cross-platform from on-premises and cloud origins to Azure and GCP.
• Expertise in Azure and GCP services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Databases, Security, Identity).
• Hands-on experience with Azure Migrate and Google Cloud Migration Center, including: Discovery, Assessment and Replication tool/appliance/service deployment and usage for servers, storage, databases, and web applications.
• Server Migration using agentless or agent-based replication techniques.
• Database Migration Service (DMS) for seamless database transitions.
• App Service Migration Assistant for web application migrations.
• Comprehensive understanding of Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system requirements and dependencies.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and Orchestration/Automation tooling (Terraform, Harness, scripting languages).
• Understanding of Azure security and compliance frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code, DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments using Terraform Cloud, GitHub and Harness.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across teams.
• Confidence to present and defend designs in governance forums.
• Focus on automation, reduction of toil and minimising technical debt.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT