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Data Center Migration Architect
PeopleNTech LLC
šŗšø United States
On-site
4 months ago
- Network Security
- VMware
- KVM
- Cisco
- TOGAF
4 months ago
Role: Data Center Migration Architect
Location: San Jose CA (Remote is also an option ā Travel required)
1st Preference ā FTE ā Max Salary: $160K/annum
2nd Preference ā Contract ā Max Rate: $100/hr
Job Description:
TheData Center Migration Architect is responsible for planning, designing, and governing endātoāend data center migration initiatives, includingdata center consolidation, exit, modernization, and hybrid transformations. This role ensures that migration strategies aresecure, scalable, minimally disruptive, and aligned with business and operational requirements.
The architect works closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams to deliver migrations fromlegacy or onāpremises data centers to new data centers, private cloud, or hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define endātoāend data center migration strategies and roadmaps.
- Lead discovery, assessment, and dependency analysis of existing data center environments.
- Design migration architectures covering compute, network, storage, security, and platform layers.
- Select appropriate migration approaches (rehost, reāplatform, reāarchitect, retire).
- Develop migration wave plans, cutover strategies, rollback plans, and validation approaches.
- Govern execution of migrations to ensure alignment with architectural intent and best practices.
- Ensure security, compliance, resiliency, and performance requirements are met throughout migration.
- Identify migration risks, constraints, and mitigation strategies proactively.
- Collaborate with delivery leads and deployment pods to support execution and issue resolution.
- Ensure proper documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover to operations teams.
Required Skills & Experience
Architecture & Migration Skills
- Strong experience leading data center migration and consolidation programs
- Deep understanding of:
- Data center infrastructure (compute, network, storage)
- Virtualization platforms (VMware / KVM)
- Network migration and connectivity planning
- Security and compliance considerations during migrations
- Experience with hybrid data center and cloudāadjacent architectures
- Ability to translate business goals into executable migration designs
- Strong stakeholder management and crossāteam coordination
- Experience working in largeāscale, multiāwave migration engagements
Certifications (Preferred)
- Data Center or Infrastructure Architecture certifications
- VMware / Cisco certifications
- Cloud or Hybrid Architecture certifications
- TOGAF or equivalent (nice to have)
Data Center Migration Architect Ā· PeopleNTech LLC