Cloud Migration Consultant

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and client teams to resolve complex incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and document findings with preventive recommendations
• Participate in evaluation of client IT infrastructure, prepare actionable assessment reports, and support due diligence to document infrastructure maturity and improvement opportunities
• Contribute to the design of scalable, cost-effective IT infrastructure solutions, review reusable components, and develop technical documentation for deployed systems
• Align release schedules and environment readiness, execute deployments as per protocols, perform post-deployment testing, and manage version control to track changes
• Co-ordinate maintenance schedules, emergency fixes, and technology upgrades while ensuring uninterrupted integration into existing systems and processes
• Facilitate performance data analysis across systems, coordinate insights on system behavior, and support capacity planning to optimize performance
• Conduct security checks, recovery drills, and compliance audits, implement security measures, and coordinate continuity plans to maintain adherence to standards
• Gather feedback to identify automation opportunities, analyze existing infrastructure processes, and propose enhancements for efficiency gains
• Act as liaison with onsite, offshore, and vendor teams to document project requirements, ensuring effective collaboration
• Develop a centralized repository of technical and procedural knowledge, leveraging insights from other projects to drive efficiency and retain organizational expertise

Qualifications

• A collaborative spirit and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to handle complex incidents and implement resolutions
• A knack for conducting IT infrastructure assessment and identifying key optimization opportunities
• Focused approach towards deployment management, system optimization, and process automation initiatives including sector specific focus
• The ability to work with cross-functional teams

Skills

Required Skills:

• Experience of large-scale AWS cloud migration and modernization programs, encompassing infrastructure, databases, middleware, and enterprise applications is a must.
• Define and execute migration strategies, including Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, and Modernization approaches.
• Own end-to-end migration wave planning, dependency mapping, migration scheduling, cutover planning, and execution tracking.
• Collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Application Development, Security, Network, Database, and Business teams to ensure seamless migration delivery.
• Serve as the primary liaison between technical and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Drive migration governance through proactive management of risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, and dashboards.
• Track migration progress across multiple workstreams and provide timely escalation and resolution of blockers.
• Possess knowledge of AWS services and cloud migration best practices, including migration assessment and planning methodologies.
• Understanding of Java/J2EE-based enterprise applications, application architecture, microservices, Spring Boot, APIs, and containerization.
• Support application transformation initiatives by identifying opportunities for cloud-native adoption and modernization.
• Leverage AI and Generative AI technologies to improve migration assessment, dependency analysis, automation, reporting, testing, and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams consisting of co-leads, migration engineers, developers and SMEs.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, vendor coordination, and cross-functional team collaboration.
• Prepare and present status reports, governance updates, and dashboards.
• Provide regular project updates to Leadership /Management teams, including migration status, risks, budget, resource utilization, and business outcomes.
• Drive successful delivery of migration programs while ensuring minimal business disruption and maximum realization of cloud transformation benefits.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and program governance capabilities are essential for success in this role.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive stakeholders in client organization;
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills