Architect - Cloud Migration

**Overview**

The role will focus on working with the various Product and Application Owners within the CIO teams to execute cloud assessments, review migration strategies, and plan / execute the actual migrations to the cloud, leading the workstream for the Cloud Migration Factory.

**Responsibilities**

This role will help to execute the cloud migration efforts globally, in partnership with additional team members. Each customer sector (geography) will have their own cloud migration initiative and we will have at least one person leading the Cloud Migration squad and executing the migrations as a part of the Migration Factory.
- Determine / confirm recommended hosting model to ensure the implementation of migrated solutions in the cloud will have a cost-effective support model and hosting model for all services.
- Review side by side comparisons of labor costs, hosting / hardware costs, software licenses, shared services costs, Operating System / database versions and patch levels, along with proposed migration method and any proposed re-architecture or optimization required to drive alignment across various teams for migrations and ensure the migrated system meets requirements.
- Execute migration recommendations to support the multiyear cloud transformation journey, which would include operationalizing the required technology in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. This role will also provide guidance and leadership when a legacy system is to be replaced with the on-boarding of new cloud-native solutions for PepsiCo.

**Qualifications**

A leader with strong communications and organizational skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity while juggling multiple priorities and projects at the same time
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of related IT business work experience
- 3 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure principles and methodologies
- 3 years of relevant experience with Infrastructure delivery and/or operations
- 2+ years of cloud migration experience including assessing migration methods and optimization of optimization of cloud cost (IaaS and PaaS)

Technical Skills Required
- Experience with hands-on execution of migrations
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment with demonstrated experience leading cloud deployment projects (including cloud native development and migration)
- Solid understanding of Containerization and Virtualization technologies such as VMWare, docker
- Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tools for tracking, developing, deploying software
- Experience with Configuration, migration and deployment efforts related to Azure or AWS IaaS/PaaS Technologies
- Experience operating complex multi-datacenter, multi-cluster environment and a strong understanding of multi-tenancy and security
- Experience with hosting enterprise class SQL, NoSQL, and Big Data DBs Experience in license management, and measuring utilization and compliance
- Experience in hybrid multi-cloud environment - both IaaS and PaaS offerings
- Experience in cost estimation for cloud hosting (including both cloud hosting costs and software licensing)
- Experience in the various migration methods (5R’s or 6R’s, depending on the methodology that you follow): rehost, re-platform, rearchitect, refactor, revise, rebuild, replace/repurchase/retire, retain)
- A working understanding of code and script such as: Shell and PowerShell, Python and Perl
- Preferred: Solid understanding of networking concepts (BGP, DNS, Load Balancing, firewall and core Internet), including CDN