Lead Mission-Critical Cloud Migrations

Are you an experienced infrastructure or cloud migration professional who thrives in fast-paced enterprise environments? We're looking for a highly organised Wave Owner to lead the successful execution of cloud migration waves, ensuring seamless server cutovers, stakeholder coordination, risk management, and post-migration support.

As the Wave Owner, you will own the end-to-end delivery of assigned migration waves, acting as the central point of accountability for planning, coordinating, executing, and successfully completing server migrations into the cloud.

Cloud Migration Planning & Coordination

• Own the end-to-end migration lifecycle for all servers within your assigned move group.
  
• Coordinate migration planning activities across infrastructure, application, and business teams.
  
• Engage with Platform Architecture (PA) teams to ensure solution designs are approved and outstanding issues are resolved.
  
• Mobilise migration execution teams to develop detailed cutover plans.
  
• Ensure completion of migration intake documentation and initiation of server replication activities.
  
• Schedule, facilitate, and lead cutover planning workshops and execution sessions.
  
• Coordinate migration execution and oversee post-cutover hypercare activities.
  

Cutover Planning & Execution

• Review, validate, and approve detailed cutover plans.
  
• Ensure technical execution aligns with approved solution designs.
  
• Manage cutover dependencies, timelines, and critical path activities.
  
• Drive successful migration execution while minimising operational disruption.
  
• Obtain formal sign-off for cutover plans, migration execution, and hypercare completion.
  

Stakeholder Management

Work closely with internal business and technical stakeholders to ensure all migration prerequisites are completed, including:

• Account vending
  
• Active Directory (AD) group creation
  
• Perimeter firewall requests and approvals
  
• DNS requests and implementation
  
• Infrastructure readiness activities
  
• Application-specific migration readiness
  

Build strong relationships with project managers, infrastructure engineers, architects, cloud specialists, and business representatives to ensure seamless delivery.

Risk, Governance & Reporting

• Track migration progress against agreed milestones and delivery schedules.
  
• Provide regular reporting on:
  
  • Migration wave progress
    
  • Server cutover status
    
  • Migration success metrics
    
  • Schedule adherence
    
  • Forecasted completion
    
• Identify, assess, document, and escalate project risks and issues.
  
• Develop mitigation strategies and drive issue resolution.
  
• Maintain accurate risk and issue registers.
  
• Update migration heatmaps and governance dashboards.
  

Hypercare & Operational Transition

• Coordinate post-cutover hypercare activities.
  
• Facilitate rapid resolution of post-migration incidents.
  
• Work with technical teams to troubleshoot migration-related issues.
  
• Ensure smooth transition into operational support.
  
• Capture lessons learned and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
  

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve migration processes and cutover methodologies.
  
• Contribute to migration standards, governance, and best practices.
  
• Help drive repeatable and scalable cloud migration delivery processes.
  

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise infrastructure or cloud migration projects.
  
• Proven experience coordinating server migration and cutover activities within large enterprise environments.
  
• Strong understanding of cloud migration methodologies and migration lifecycles.
  
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and technical stakeholders.
  
• Knowledge of:
  • Windows & Linux Server environments
    
  • Active Directory
    
  • DNS
    
  • Firewalls
    
  • Networking fundamentals
    
  • Infrastructure services
    
• Strong project coordination and planning skills.
  
• Experience managing project risks, issues, governance, and reporting.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  
• Ability to perform under pressure within highly complex programmes.
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Azure cloud migration programmes.
  
• Exposure to AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
  
• Experience using migration tooling such as Azure Migrate, CloudEndure, or similar platforms.
  
• Familiarity with ITIL Service Management principles.
  
• Experience working within large enterprise transformation programmes.
  
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
  
• Experience coordinating hypercare and operational handover activities.