Cloud Migration Engineer
Further · Cleveland, OH · 3 wk ago
HybridInformation TechnologyFull-time
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.