Cloud Migration Consultant

Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Location: Doylestown, PA/ Remote

Duration: short term (2-4 weeks), ideally a candidate who is in between assignments

Position Qualifications/Requirements

• Experience with design and implementation of cloud infrastructure environments in public cloud service offering on Azure (Associate level certification is a plus)
• Strong scripting proficiency with Powershell is desired, Python will be acceptable
• Basic knowledge of at least one SQL based DBMS (MS-SQL preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of Windows versions 2008R2 and up
• Strong knowledge of Active directory, IIS and Microsoft Exchange
• Experience migrating to and from Microsoft O365 Commercial, Exchange 2007-2016, Exchange Online, One Drive for Business a plus
• Strong knowledge to expert hands on experience transferring domains/registrars (e.g. transferring between GoDaddy, AWS, HostGator, etc.) ensuring nothing is lost including DNS records
• Virtualization experience
• Detail oriented self-starter capable of working independently.
• Minimum of 10 + years of Windows Administration experience with at least 2 years of experience with data centers, consolidation, relocation, migration, or virtualization projects
• Experience with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another
• Experience migrating data to public, private, or hybrid platforms with migration techniques such as re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase, etc.
• Experience with migration discovery, profiling, migration, and operations technologies and tools (CloudEndure, ASR, RISC Cloudscape, etc.)
• Storage Technologies (DAS, NAS, SAN & Cloud Storage)
• MCSE certification is a plus

Desired Skills

• Hands on experience designing and building new data centers
• Experience planning and executing data-center consolidations, relocations, and migrations
• Ability to perform infrastructure discovery and assessments working with Architecture team
• Demonstrated understanding of Data Center Operations (Production operations, Server, Storage, Network, Data Base Management, Systems Management, Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices)
• Familiarity with functional operations of server, storage, and network functions.
• Knowledge of storage Platform Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware & Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/Client etc.).
• Data Center/Server Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.).
• Experience with Asset Management tools/process
• Facilities Management Experience (Power, HVAC, Hard Wire Topologies, etc.).