VMware to AWS Migration Lead – Enterprise Services

Amazon Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in VMware to AWS migrations. You will work with customers to design, execute, and manage large-scale migrations, delivering measurable business outcomes across the programme lifecycle.

You will provide technical leadership, migration best practices, and hands-on delivery from assessment through production cutover. You will lead assessments, define migration strategies, architectures, and wave plans, coordinate across geographies, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale VMware-to-AWS migrations.
• Ability to design migration strategies and target architectures.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Experience with discovery tooling and governance across multiple geographies.

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 expertise

AWS migrations

Delivery leadership

Customer engagement

Solution architecture

Tools

AWS

VMware

Discovery tooling

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in VMware to AWS migrations. You will work with customers to design, execute, and manage large-scale migrations, delivering measurable business outcomes across the programme lifecycle.

You will provide technical leadership, migration best practices, and hands-on delivery from assessment through production cutover. You will lead assessments, define migration strategies, architectures, and wave plans, coordinate across geographies, and