Migration Consultant, Modern Platforms Advisory

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The Role

As a Migration Consultant - Modern Platforms, you will collaborate with cross functional teams to drive delivery excellence and outstanding customer experiences on all assigned engagements. 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 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-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 technologies (e.g., VMware vSphere, MS Hyper-V)
• Knowledge of cloud or on-premise migration tools and strategies.
• Excellent project management and client communication skills
• An eagerness to learn and adapt in a rapidly evolving field.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, a self-starter.
• Ability to work on multiple projects, prioritize work, and meet timelines.
• Ability to properly diagram and document a working environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Be a team player 

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Proficiency in one of the cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, with relevant certification(s).
• 3+ years of migration experience
• Experience with data visualization tools and creating dynamic informational dashboards (PowerBI, Tableau, QuickSight, etc.)
• Experience with process and workflow management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Project management experience with relevant certifications (PMP, Agile, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to design and explain complex infrastructure solutions.
• Strong communication to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Technical certifications strongly desired.
• Familiarity with different security models and leading practices (i.e., PCI, SOC2, NIST, HITRUST, FedRAMP, Gov Cloud, CJIS, ITAR, EAR, or others).
• Working knowledge of access management, cloud security posture management, data loss prevention, and encryption.
• Working knowledge and experience working to optimize cloud resources to enhance performance and reduce costs continuously.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• A genuine passion for delivering quality products that meet customer needs.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change, and have ownership of learning new tools as applicable to help in the requirements gathering, refinement, and management process.
• Works as a team player, willing to perform other tasks to help the team, even if not part of their defined role and responsibilities.
• Passion, creativity, energy, and enthusiasm towards collaborating on the exciting growth and development of our customers and our company.
• A desire to learn modern technologies, methodologies, and solutions, and to understand our customers' business objectives and needs.  

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit

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