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Hybrid Cloud And Data Center Migration Architect - Manager

Location:  Chennai
Other locations:  Anywhere in Country
Salary: Competitive
Date:  Dec 21, 2025

Job description

Requisition ID:  1668361

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Job Title: Hybrid Cloud & Data Center Migration Engineer – Manager

 

Job Summary:

 

We are seeking an experienced Hybrid Cloud & Data Center Migration Engineer – Manager with up to 14 years of experience in cloud architecture, hybrid infrastructure, and large-scale data center migration programs. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in designing target-state architectures, leading cloud transformations, and orchestrating migration waves across compute, storage, network, platform, and application layers. This role requires deep technical leadership, migration governance, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on architectural decision-making.

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

  • Lead design of hybrid cloud architectures, integrating on-prem data centers with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud environments.
  • Architect end-to-end migration strategies including assessment, gap analysis, transformation planning, and execution governance.
  • Define landing zones, network segmentation, identity models, storage patterns, security architectures, and application migration patterns.
  • Lead migration waves across VMware workloads, physical servers, databases, middleware, and application portfolios.
  • Collaborate with platform, network, storage, security, and application teams to design scalable and secure hybrid architectures.
  • Develop detailed Low-Level Designs (LLDs), as-built documentation, topology diagrams, and migration runbooks.
  • Guide engineering teams in implementing IaC, automation, modernization, backup strategies, and cloud-native services.
  • Participate in client workshops, solutioning, RFP responses, and architectural governance forums.
  • Provide leadership in modernization patterns such as rehost, replatform, refactor, containerization, and platform uplift.
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise cloud governance, FinOps models, resilience patterns, and operational readiness.

 

 

Qualifications:

 

  • Up to 14 years in cloud architecture, hybrid cloud design, and DC migration programs.
  • Expertise with Azure/AWS/GCP architectures, VMware, virtualization, Windows/Linux, and infrastructure modernization patterns.
  • Strong understanding of migration tooling (Azure Migrate, CloudEndure, PlateSpin, HCX, Velostrata, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, ARM/Bicep), automation, CI/CD, and container platforms.
  • Experience architecting resilient systems: backup, DR, HA, multi-zone and hybrid connectivity.
  • Deep understanding of cloud networking: VPN, ExpressRoute, TGW/VPC Peering, routing, segmentation.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field; cloud architect certifications are preferred.

 

 

Preferred Skills:

 

  • Experience with data center exit programs, colocation migrations, or multi-region hybrid deployments.
  • Knowledge of identity and access models (Azure AD, IAM, RBAC, Zero Trust).
  • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, and platform reliability engineering.
  • Strong communication, client leadership, documentation, and architectural decision-making skills.

 

 

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