Responsibilities

• Drive technology infrastructure from “ current state to future state ” with a focus on data center migration
• Manage the process with an deep understanding of risk mitigation and chain of custody for physical servers
• Manage the project teams including; Align, the client and the vendors throughout the project
• Gather documentation and build and develop a delivery plan for all the work streams
• Manage all migration plans and wave event planning (i.e., run books, execution plans)
• Advise clients on potential risk, and manage client expectations
• Continually improve the process and framework and update our migration solution

Knowledge, skills and attributes

• Demonstrate broad product knowledge integrated with strong technology understanding
• Good understanding of the vendor’s products, business and technology positioning
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains
• Knowledgeable in core frameworks used
• Strong knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for

Experience required:

• Minimum of 5 years of Data Center Migration and IT transformation project experience ( assessments, migrations, consolidations, virtualization projects, etc. )
• Must have prior experience managing one or more complex, enterprise-level data center migration or consolidation projects
• A holistic understanding of IT infrastructure inclusive of server, storage, network, database, systems , DR/business recovery and continuity practices, etc.
• A foundational understanding of public cloud models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and providers (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Familiar with application and workload dependencies , architecture and service level requirements
• Understands application and workload move dispositions (cloud, P2V, V2V, P2P, Lift and Shift) and the methodologies around each
• Proven client engagement and development consulting experience
• Experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
• Proven experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization
• Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to create and manage budgets
• Familiar with project schedules and dependencies (Microsoft Project)
• Understanding of Asset management (experience with tools/process)
• Experience in executing change control, quality, risk management and communications throughout the project

Technical Qualifications

• Applied understanding of data center functions,(including basis Data Center Facilities knowledge) technologies and interdependencies:
• Qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science or Information Systems
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
• Relevant vendor and industry certifications, e.g. Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle,
• PMP certification is desired
• IT BCP, ITIL and ITSM knowledge and certifications desired
• Basic Professional Certification such as Network, Security, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, application are desired.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• Azure
• ITIL
• data center