Cloud Migration engineer- Remote in México

Important IT company At the Latin American level, growth requires: Cloud Migration Engineer Basic Qualifications: ▪ Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Information Technology, or a related quantitative discipline. ▪ Experience: 3–5+ years of hands-on engineering experience supporting infrastructure, applications, cloud environments, or enterprise migration initiatives in collaborative team-based environments. ▪ Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and monitoring services. ▪ Programming & Automation: Professional proficiency in Python, Java, Bash, PowerShell, or similar programming/scripting languages. Ability to develop automation tools and scripts to improve migration efficiency and repeatability. ▪ Operating Systems: Strong Unix/Linux fundamentals with the ability to troubleshoot application, deployment, infrastructure, environment, networking, and runtime issues. ▪ Containers & Modern Platforms: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based deployments, including troubleshooting, scaling, configuration management, and operational support. ▪ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with automation and provisioning tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep templates, Ansible, or equivalent technologies. ▪ Methodology: Strong understanding of SDLC practices, Agile methodologies, CI/CD delivery models, change management processes, release management, and production deployment procedures. ▪ Networking Fundamentals: Understanding of enterprise networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, load balancing, private connectivity, and hybrid cloud architectures. Key ResponsibilitiesDiscovery & Migration Assessment: ▪ Assess on-premises hosts, applications, databases, middleware, and infrastructure components to perform technical discovery and migration readiness analysis. ▪ Analyze CPU, memory, storage utilization, dependencies, integrations, runtime patterns, licensing considerations, and application architecture. ▪ Identify migration risks, technical constraints, dependencies, and remediation requirements. ▪ Analyze workloads based on functionality, business criticality, resiliency requirements, compliance needs, and interruption tolerance. ▪ Define appropriate cloud placement strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, or replace approaches. Cloud Infrastructure Planning & Implementation: ▪ Design and provision cloud infrastructure capacity required to support migration activities, testing environments, and production workloads. ▪ Configure cloud resources including compute, storage, networking, identity, security controls, monitoring, and operational tooling. ▪ Validate cloud environments against architecture standards, security requirements, and operational readiness criteria. ▪ Implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code practices. Migration Execution & Validation: ▪ Execute migration waves following approved migration plans, runbooks, and change management procedures. ▪ Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production parallel testing, and technical validation activities. ▪ Compare pre-migration and post-migration results, capture evidence, troubleshoot discrepancies, and drive issues through resolution. ▪ Support production cutovers, release activities, rollback procedures, and post-release validation. ▪ Perform post-migration health checks to ensure workload stability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness. Performance Optimization & Operations: ▪ Perform workload tuning and optimization to ensure migrated applications are stable, scalable, reliable, and cost efficient. ▪ Analyze performance metrics, resource utilization, logs, and operational data to identify optimization opportunities. ▪ Support monitoring, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and operational support requirements. ▪ Assist with cloud cost optimization through resource right-sizing and utilization analysis. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: ▪ Partner with application engineering, infrastructure, security, database, and platform teams to define migration plans and execution strategies. ▪ Collaborate with business stakeholders to establish validation criteria, acceptance requirements, and migration timelines. ▪ Participate in architecture reviews, technical discussions, and solution design activities. ▪ Communicate technical risks, dependencies, progress, and migration status effectively. Automation & Continuous Improvement: ▪ Design, enhance, and implement automation frameworks to enable repeatable, scalable, and efficient cloud migrations. ▪ Develop AI-assisted solutions and automation capabilities to improve migration discovery, analysis, execution, and documentation processes. ▪ Create reusable scripts, templates, tools, and frameworks supporting migration factory operations. ▪ Document migration procedures, technical standards, operational learnings, risks, and best practices. ▪ Continuously improve migration methodologies, processes, and delivery models. Required Technical Skills: ▪ Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform ▪ Operating Systems: Linux/Unix administration ▪ Programming/Scripting: Python, Java, Bash, PowerShell ▪ Containers: Docker and Kubernetes ▪ CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools ▪ Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Ansible ▪ Version Control: Git-based workflows ▪ Monitoring: Cloud-native monitoring tools, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent ▪ Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, routing, VPN, load balancing, firewalls ▪ Enterprise migration methodologies and best practices Preferred Qualifications: ▪ Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Administrator/Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. ▪ Experience supporting large-scale enterprise cloud migrations involving hundreds or thousands of servers/applications. ▪ Experience with migration tools such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Azure Migrate, Google Cloud Migrate, VMware HCX, CloudEndure, or equivalent. ▪ Experience with VMware, virtualization platforms, and hybrid cloud environments. ▪ Experience working with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow and project management tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps. ▪ Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills. Success Criteria: ▪ Successful execution of migration waves within agreed timelines and quality standards. ▪ Stable production workloads after migration with minimal business disruption. ▪ Increased migration velocity through automation and repeatable processes. ▪ Improved cloud reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH AND SPANISH ESSENTIAL (Will be evaluated). If you are a foreingner residing in Mexico, you must have a valid INE, CURP, NSS and RFC. Job type : Remote Location : México. Salary : $85,000 gross Benefits : Excellent superior benefits.