Global Cloud Migration SME

Title: Global Cloud Migration SME

Work Mode: WFO.

Years of experience: 10 Years

Reports to Cloud Program Director

Purpose of the role:

The Cloud Application Migration Specialist will focus on migrating on-premises applications to the cloud in a methodical way that enables migration at the required scale and speed required for the project. This position will be the Application lead for cloud migration projects spanning multiple countries while ensuring a seamless transition from an on-prem to cloud operating environment.

·      Work with relevant Application owners to define and create application migration plans

·      Define and follow the migration process with emphasis on capturing the advantages of operating in the cloud for migrated applications

·      Partner with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Ops, and other teams in executing migration projects to ensure minimal risk and business disruption

·      Provide deep cloud migration expertise covering infrastructure, application architectures, cloud capabilities, security, etc.

In partnership with country application teams, review and identify candidate applications for cloud migration.

·      Lead the discovery and assessment of on-prem application workloads to inform detailed migration planning

·      Define appropriate migration strategy for each application (Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, etc.) while considering the cost and complexity of the various options

·      Work with other stakeholders to define and build the business case for cloud application migration

·      Ensure migrated applications comply with required security and controls requirements

·      Communicate cloud migration application status to key stakeholders.

·      Define and measure relevant cloud application migration KPIs to ensure overall program health across budget, infrastructure currency, migration efficiency, etc.

·      Identify run time dependencies for applications

·      Work with business to determine application criticality

·      Understand from business regarding application upgrade and decommissioning plans and help the project manager to develop the application migration scenarios accordingly

·      Architect and develop business applications to be cloud optimized.

·      Work as a technical leader alongside business, development and infrastructure teams.

·      Advise business about Azure best practices.

Act as both an infrastructure and application development specialist.

Expertise:

• In-depth understanding of how various Infrastructure domains work

• Demonstrated experience as a senior leader with hands on technical expertise. Driving new technology standards and processes.

• Ability to work in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

• Multiple years of experience in migrating on Prem environment to Azure and AWS cloud, inter hyperscale migrations.

• Experience in communicating with end users, technical & business teams to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs.

Ability to influence and build working relationships across various stakeholders and team members

•  The role will require strong and focused internal networking that will eventually reach key senior levels

•  Opportunity to build relationships and partnership with Internal Business stakeholders

•  Opportunity to work closely with Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure Operations, Application Development teams, Program Managers and Application/Platforms Managers, Information Security teams, Vendor Partners and any other teams to devise and agree on proper solution options and develop high- and low-level designs around various infrastructure components

Opportunity to work closely with the Regional CIOs, sponsors and key stakeholders to ensure the IT team is working toward the appropriate scope / requirements for the desired transformation

Opportunity to understand the Global business operating model, business functions which will help to understand the business needs and priorities.

Primary Job Function:

Program and Project Management

Vendor Management/Relationship

Reporting and Governance

Thought Leadership

International travel may be required, up to 10%

Key Performance:

· Customer Experience and Success: Our relentless focus and unwavering commitment to ensure successful outcomes for our clients, associates, candidates.

· Innovation: Our passion to deliver best products built on industry leading technology platforms with continuous improvement of our internal and external processes and collaborations

· Partnership: We believe in win-win partnerships and strive to create value and scaling with our partner eco system.

· Teamwork: Our culture and foundation are built on the core principle that none of us are as smart as all of us.

Requirement:

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field

· 10+ years of relevant experience in cloud Infrastructure principles and methodologies with at least five years of experience supporting application development and software engineering functions

· One or more Public Cloud certifications (Azure)

· Experience leading cloud migration projects with increasing levels of

· Accountability covering Enterprise-grade applications and other business-critical applications

· Experience leading Agile and Hybrid development and deployment projects

· Experience with configuration, migration, and deployment experience related to Azure IaaS/PaaS Technologies

· Experience in cloud-native application development and migration

· Experience managing container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker

swarm or equivalent

· Solid understanding of Containerization and Virtualization technologies such as

VMWare, docker

· Good understanding of networking concepts (BGP, DNS, Load Balancing, firewal and core Internet), including CDN

· Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tools for tracking, developing, deploying software

· Ability to take ownership and drive cloud application migration initiatives as part o projects independently

· Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

· Experience in a customer facing role driving discussions with technical personnel regarding design, development and architecting best practices

· Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.

Good to Have:

·      Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins);

·      Scripting experience (e.g. Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.);