Cloud Migration Architect & Modernization Lead

Initvalue; Fremont, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Initvalue is seeking an experienced Cloud Migration Consultant to guide clients through planning, designing, and executing cloud migrations and modernization initiatives, ensuring secure, scalable, and minimally disruptive transitions.

You will assess on‑prem environments, craft migration roadmaps for AWS/Azure/GCP, and collaborate with security, networking, and dev teams to deliver reliable, cost‑efficient workloads. Experience with IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Migration, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Solutions Architecture, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM/Bicep.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Assess on-premises applications, infrastructure, databases, and workloads for cloud readiness.
• Develop migration strategies, roadmaps, and execution plans.
• Design target architectures for AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Lead or support migrations of applications, servers, databases, and data.
• Identify migration dependencies, risks, constraints, and potential challenges.
• Develop migration plans that minimize business disruption and downtime.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams throughout migration activities.
• Implement cloud-native modernization strategies where appropriate.
• Support data migration, application integration, networking, security, and identity requirements.
• Validate migrated workloads for functionality, performance, security, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot migration-related issues and coordinate resolution across technical teams.
• Optimize migrated workloads for performance and cloud costs.
• Develop migration documentation, architecture diagrams, and technical reports.
• Support post-migration optimization and operational handover.
• Communicate migration progress, risks, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud Migration

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure

Solutions Architecture

CI/CD & DevOps

Security & Networking

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Initvalue is seeking an experienced Cloud Migration Consultant to guide clients through planning, designing, and executing cloud migrations and modernization initiatives, ensuring secure, scalable, and minimally disruptive transitions.

You will assess on‑prem environments, craft migration roadmaps for AWS/Azure/GCP, and collaborate with security, networking, and dev teams to deliver reliable, cost‑efficient workloads. Experience with IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices is preferred.