Senior Infrastructure Migration Expert

The role

As a Senior Infrastructure Migration Expert, you will lead large-scale cloud migration programmes for enterprise clients, orchestrating the transition of complex workloads from legacy or on-premises environments to cloud-native platforms. You will own the migration strategy end to end — from discovery through to hypercare — managing risks, go/no-go decisions, and multi-stakeholder escalations. You will be the go-to reference for our clients' IT leadership on cloud migration, and will actively contribute to the development of migration assets, tooling, and practice capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud migration programmes: discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and hypercare.
• Define and own comprehensive migration strategies covering lift-and-shift, replatforming, and refactoring. Ensure alignment with client objectives, application dependencies, technical and business constraints, project timelines and inter-dependencies…
• Define migration waves, sequencing, and cutover plans for complex, multi-platforms environments.
• Architect the target-state infrastructure and oversee IaC provisioning across multi-cloud environments.
• Define workloads and applications migration approaches: Data schema evolution, dual-write strategies, data replication and integrity validation.
• Coordinate offshore/onshore project delivery teams, ensuring readiness at each stage and following up on progress and blockers.
• Manage migration risk, go/no-go decisions, and stakeholder escalations.
• Drive Post-migration activities, Hyper-Care period and transition of operations to RUN teams, including implementation of backup, observability, OS patching, privileged access, documentation updates…
• Drive rightsizing, cost optimisation, and FinOps practices on migrated infrastructure.
• Collaborate with client on decommissioning of legacy infrastructure and reduction of technical debt.
• Mentor junior migration engineers, develop reusable migration patterns, and contribute to knowledge repositories.
• Engage with client CxOs and programme sponsors to communicate progress, risk, and value delivered.
• Contribute to migration tooling, automation frameworks, and practice capability development.

Your profile

Required Skills

• Deep expertise in cloud migration at enterprise scale across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and/or Private Clouds — multiple end-to-end programmes delivered.
• Mastery of migration strategies and tooling: AWS MGN, Azure Migrate, Velero, CloudEndure, AWS DMS, VMWare HCX, Nutanix...
• Excellent infrastructure knowledge across multiple infrastructure technologies and tools: SAN/NAS storage, backup, infrastructure monitoring, Virtualization platforms (VMWare, RedHat OpenShift…)
• Good understanding of Linux and Windows administration and troubleshooting in cloud environments.
• Good understanding of network and routing principles (segmentation, vlans, subnets, firewalling, VRFs, NSX…)
• Good knowledge of Data Centers and hosting, Data Center LAN networks, security principles
• Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance, and governance during migrations (encryption, IAM, audit logs, NIS2).
• Experience leading cross-functional migration teams: networking, security, application, and FinOps.
• Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure environments and enterprise IT operating models.
• Ability to define and manage SLAs, KPIs, and success metrics for migration programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including CxO-level reporting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with mainframe or SAP workload migrations to cloud.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes-based workload migration (Velero, KubeMove).
• Familiarity with multi-cloud networking (SD-WAN, Aviatrix, Cloud WAN).
• Experience with database-as-a-service migrations (Oracle to Aurora, SQL Server to Azure SQL).
• ITIL or project management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2).

Relevant Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• AWS Certified Database – Specialty or Azure Database Administrator Associate.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate / Professional.

About Accenture

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