Migration Consultant, Modern Platforms Advisory

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The Role
As a Migration Consultant - Modern Platforms Migration, you will work on a team to ensure executional excellence and create supreme customer experiences for all assigned projects. 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 strategies 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 -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 techn