The RoleAs a Migration Consultant - Modern Platforms, you will collaborate with cross functional teams to drive delivery excellence and outstanding customer experiences on all assigned engagements. A Migration Consultant will assist with discovering a client's IT environment, designing a migration approach, and overseeing the migration of an organization's applications, data, and infrastructure to the new destination (on-prem, cloud, hybrid, etc.). This role requires a solid understanding of primary on-premises technologies, cloud platforms, migration strategies, and leading practices to ensure a smooth, secure, and efficient transition. This position reports to the Director of Modern Platforms, Migration.
In this role, you will be expected to travel up to 15%. This is a work-from-home role with the option to use the local Presidio office (if available).
Responsibilities Include:Cloud Strategy & Planning- Assist with developing a comprehensive migration strategy based on business and technical requirements.
- Assess the current IT landscape and define the scope of migration.
- Assist with choosing the appropriate hosting model (public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud) and cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Develop cost, security, and compliance requirements for cloud adoption
- Develop detailed migration and/or transformation plans
Migration Design & Architecture- Consolidate data from multiple sources, identify gaps, and gather information to create complete master inventories.
- Develop migration plans, including rehosting (lift-and-shift), re-platforming, re-architecting, and replacing legacy systems.
- Identify dependencies and risks associated with migrations (cloud, on-prem, hybrid, etc.)
- Provide appropriate services (compute, storage, networking, security) to optimize performance.
Execution & Implementation- Lead the migration process to minimize downtime and business disruption.
- Work closely with infrastructure, DevOps, security, and networking teams to provide configuration requirements.
- Oversee data migration, application refactoring, and integration with cloud-native services.
- Post implementation support and troubleshooting for clients on occasion
- Provide optimization suggestions to increase post-migration cost-effectiveness and efficiency.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication- Work with business leaders, developers, and IT teams to align cloud migration goals.
- Assist with developing training for client technology teams on migration processes and leading practices.
- Communicate migration progress, risks, and solutions to stakeholders.
- Technical writing skills to author professional documentation for client review.
- Authoring logical and physical diagrams using LucidChart or Visio (or equivalent).
- Leading conversations and whiteboarding sessions in front of clients and/or peers.
Required Skills and Professional Experience:- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience or military experience
- 3+ years of experience in the IT industry
- 1+ years of migration experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Good understanding of IaaS and PaaS cloud services
- Knowledge of the main infrastructure building blocks and their basic principles - compute, storage, networking.
- Good understanding of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware vSphere, MS Hyper-V)
- Knowledge of cloud or on-premise migration tools and strategies.
- Excellent project management and client communication skills
- An eagerness to learn and adapt in a rapidly evolving field.
- Highly self-motivated and directed, a self-starter.
- Ability to work on multiple projects, prioritize work, and meet timelines.
- Ability to properly diagram and document a working environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Be a team player
Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:- Proficiency in one of the cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, with relevant certification(s).
- 3+ years of migration experience
- Experience with data visualization tools and creating dynamic informational dashboards (PowerBI, Tableau, QuickSight, etc.)
- Experience with process and workflow management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Project management experience with relevant certifications (PMP, Agile, etc.)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to design and explain complex infrastructure solutions.
- Strong communication to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Technical certifications strongly desired.
- Familiarity with different security models and leading practices (i.e., PCI, SOC2, NIST, HITRUST, FedRAMP, Gov Cloud, CJIS, ITAR, EAR, or others).
- Working knowledge of access management, cloud security posture management, data loss prevention, and encryption.
- Working knowledge and experience working to optimize cloud resources to enhance performance and reduce costs continuously.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
- A genuine passion for delivering quality products that meet customer needs.
- Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change, and have ownership of learning new tools as applicable to help in the requirements gathering, refinement, and management process.
- Works as a team player, willing to perform other tasks to help the team, even if not part of their defined role and responsibilities.
- Passion, creativity, energy, and enthusiasm towards collaborating on the exciting growth and development of our customers and our company.
- A desire to learn modern technologies, methodologies, and solutions, and to understand our customers' business objectives and needs.
