Senior VMware-to-AWS Migration Lead - Professional Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Delivery Consultant specialized in VMware to AWS migrations. You will design, execute, and manage large-scale VMware estate migrations to AWS, delivering measurable business outcomes across the programme lifecycle and guiding customers from assessment through production cutover.

You will lead enterprise data centre exit programs across multiple countries, work with discovery tooling, define migration strategies, and coordinate wave plans while aligning with AWS

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of cloud architecture, solution implementation, or consulting experience with a focus on large-scale cloud migration and modernization programs.
• Experience leading the delivery of large-scale, mission-critical enterprise IT and migration programmes including data centre exits in a customer-facing role.
• Deep hands-on experience with VMware environments including vSphere, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, and ESXi administration and migration.
• Experience as the technical lead of large-scale migrations, defining migration strategy and target architecture, translating technical choices into business outcomes for executive audiences.
• Experience using AI-powered and agentic migration and modernization tools such as AWS Transform, ModelizeIT, Kiro, or equivalent to accelerate discovery, assessment, and migration execution at scale.
• Hands-on experience with technology infrastructure including network, compute, storage, and virtualization.
• Experience with wave planning including dependency grouping, capacity balancing, and multi-geography coordination under regulatory constraints.
• Experience leading large teams and matrix organizations and driving alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle and agile and iterative delivery methods.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex, scalable, and secure AWS target architectures for VMware workload migrations, covering compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers
• Lead end-to-end VMware estate assessments using discovery tooling and application owner interviews, producing portfolio disposition recommendations with R-strategy assignments across rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and relocate
• Define migration strategy and target architecture for VMware workloads, translating technical choices into business outcomes for executive audiences
• Design and own wave plans including dependency grouping, capacity balancing, cutover sequencing, and multi-geography coordination under regulatory constraints
• Apply AI-powered and agentic migration tools including AWS Transform, ModelizeIT, Kiro, and equivalent tooling to accelerate discovery, assessment, and migration execution at scale
• Lead large delivery teams and matrix organizations, driving alignment across business and technology stakeholders throughout the program lifecycle
• Partner with AWS Migration Services including Application Migration Service (MGN), Database Migration Service (DMS), and Migration Hub to execute migrations with precision and repeatability
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout delivery, ensuring adherence to AWS Well-Architected principles and optimizing wave sequencing to minimize risk and business disruption
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers on VMware licensing optimization, infrastructure modernization, and emerging AWS capabilities relevant to their environment
• Share knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable migration artifacts, runbooks, and cutover playbooks that partners can execute at scale

Skills

VMware

AWS

Cloud migration

Migration strategy

Leadership

Discovery tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS Transform

ModelizeIT

Kiro

Migration Hub

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Delivery Consultant specialized in VMware to AWS migrations. You will design, execute, and manage large-scale VMware estate migrations to AWS, delivering measurable business outcomes across the programme lifecycle and guiding customers from assessment through production cutover.

You will lead enterprise data centre exit programs across multiple countries, work with discovery tooling, define migration strategies, and coordinate wave plans while aligning with AWS