Cloud Migration Engineer

Further

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of cloud engineering experience, specifically with GCP migrations at production depth.
  • History of successful production workload migrations to GCP, ensuring no data loss or downtime.
  • Expertise in Terraform; infrastructure as code is a fundamental part of your process.
  • Understanding of multi-cloud environments to facilitate smooth architectural transitions.
  • Experience in a client-facing role, adept at managing expectations and communicating complex risks clearly.
  • Strong written communication skills to create actionable migration documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Design migration architecture and create comprehensive migration plans considering operational constraints.
  • Write and manage Terraform configurations for repeatable and reliable infrastructure deployments.
  • Lead production migration cutovers, ensuring zero data loss and minimizing downtime during transitions.
  • Communicate with clients through technical discovery sessions and deliver understandable migration plans.
  • Conduct post-migration validation, setting up monitoring, and providing necessary documentation for the client.

Benefits

  • Net-zero cost medical option with company HSA contributions.
  • Fertility support and fully-paid parental leave.
  • Monthly stipend for lifestyle spending.
  • Comprehensive total rewards program designed for employee well-being.
Full Job Description
Cloud Migration Engineer

You are the engineer clients trust to move their infrastructure to GCP without drama. No data loss, no unplanned downtime, no surprises. You've done this before at production depth - not as a supporting player, but as the person who owned the outcome.Half your work is technical: designing the migration architecture, writing the Terraform that makes it repeatable, and executing the cutover with the discipline that comes from having seen what goes wrong. The other half is client-facing: translating messy real-world infrastructure (legacy systems, undocumented dependencies, nervous stakeholders) into a migration plan that the client can understand and the build team can execute.You use AI to work more efficiently. You don't use it as a substitute for knowing what you're doing. You will sit in our headquarters in Dallas, TX on a hybrid schedule. The team is in office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What experience should you have:
  • 8-12 years of cloud engineering experience, with a track record of owning GCP migrations end to end at production depth.
  • Proven success migrating production workloads to GCP with no data loss and no unplanned downtime. You can walk us through a migration you owned, what went wrong, and how you handled it.
  • Strong Terraform expertise: you write infrastructure as code by default, not as an afterthought.
  • Multi-cloud fluency: you understand the source environments clients are migrating from and can map their architecture to GCP equivalents without starting from scratch.
  • Consulting or client-facing experience: you can lead a room, manage expectations, and communicate technical risk to people who don't want to hear it.
  • Clear, direct written communication: migration plans, runbooks, and handoff docs that someone else can actually use.

Nice to have
  • GCP Professional certifications (Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, or equivalent).
  • Experience with containerized workloads: GKE, Cloud Run, or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with data migration tooling: Database Migration Service, Datastream, Transfer Service.
  • Exposure to compliance requirements in migration contexts: data residency, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline migration and modernization.

What you'll be doing in this role:
  • Migration architecture and planning: assessing client environments, mapping dependencies, designing the target GCP architecture, and producing a phased migration plan that accounts for real operational constraints.
  • Infrastructure as code: writing and maintaining Terraform configurations that make every migration repeatable, auditable, and reversible where it needs to be.
  • The cutover: owning the execution of production migrations with zero data loss and no unplanned downtime. You've done this enough times to know where it goes wrong and how to prevent it.
  • Client communication: running technical discovery sessions, presenting migration plans to non-technical stakeholders, and keeping clients informed at every phase without burying them in detail.
  • Post-migration validation: performance baselines, monitoring setup, and the handoff documentation that means the client isn't dependent on you forever.

Our total rewards program is designed for your protection, peace of mind, and overall well-being. In addition to our outstanding basics, we offer a net-zero cost medical option, company contributions to your HSA, fertility support, fully-paid parental leave, a monthly stipend for your lifestyle spending account, and much more.

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