Technical AWS Rehost Migration Manager

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment invites an experienced Wave Owner to lead cloud migration waves from planning through to post-migration support. You will own end-to-end delivery, coordinating across infrastructure, applications, and business teams to ensure successful server migrations into the cloud.

The role requires strong coordination, risk management, and governance capabilities, with exposure to Azure migration tooling and hybrid/enterprise cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years delivering enterprise infrastructure or cloud migration projects.
• Proven experience coordinating server migration and cutover activities in large enterprises.
• Strong understanding of cloud migration methodologies and lifecycles.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end migration lifecycle for servers within your group.
• Coordinate migration planning with infrastructure, application, and business teams.
• Engage with Platform Architecture teams to approve designs and resolve issues.
• Mobilise execution teams to develop detailed cutover plans.
• Lead cutover planning workshops and post-cutover hypercare activities.
• Track progress against milestones and provide regular governance reporting.

Skills

Cloud migration leadership

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Risk management

Planning & scheduling

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering

Tools

Azure Migrate

CloudEndure

Job description

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 04/08/2026

Are you an experienced infrastructure or cloud migration professional who thrives in fast-paced enterprise environments? We're looking for a highly organised Wave Owner to lead the successful execution of cloud migration waves, ensuring seamless server cutovers, stakeholder coordination, risk management, and post-migration support.

As the Wave Owner , you will own the end-to-end delivery of assigned migration waves, acting as the central point of accountability for planning, coordinating, executing, and successfully completing server migrations into the cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end migration lifecycle for all servers within your assigned move group.
• Coordinate migration planning activities across infrastructure, application, and business teams.
• Engage with Platform Architecture (PA) teams to ensure solution designs are approved and outstanding issues are resolved.
• Mobilise migration execution teams to develop detailed cutover plans.
• Ensure completion of migration intake documentation and initiation of server replication activities.
• Schedule, facilitate, and lead cutover planning workshops and execution sessions.
• Coordinate migration execution and oversee post-cutover hypercare activities.

Cutover Planning & Execution

• Review, validate, and approve detailed cutover plans.
• Ensure technical execution aligns with approved solution designs.
• Manage cutover dependencies, timelines, and critical path activities.
• Drive successful migration execution while minimising operational disruption.
• Obtain formal sign-off for cutover plans, migration execution, and hypercare completion.

Stakeholder Management

Work closely with internal business and technical stakeholders to ensure all migration prerequisites are completed, including:

• Active Directory (AD) group creation
• Perimeter firewall requests and approvals
• DNS requests and implementation
• Infrastructure readiness activities
• Application-specific migration readiness

Build strong relationships with project managers, infrastructure engineers, architects, cloud specialists, and business representatives to ensure seamless delivery.

Risk, Governance & Reporting

• Track migration progress against agreed milestones and delivery schedules.

Provide regular reporting on:

• Migration wave progress
• Server cutover status
• Migration success metrics
• Schedule adherence
• Forecasted completion
• Identify, assess, document, and elevate project risks and issues.
• Develop mitigation strategies and drive issue resolution.
• Maintain accurate risk and issue registers.
• Update migration heatmaps and governance dashboards.
• Coordinate post-cutover hypercare activities.
• Facilitate rapid resolution of post-migration incidents.
• Work with technical teams to troubleshoot migration-related issues.
• Ensure smooth transition into operational support.
• Capture lessons learned and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to improve migration processes and cutover methodologies.
• Contribute to migration standards, governance, and best practices.
• Help drive repeatable and scalable cloud migration delivery processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise infrastructure or cloud migration projects.
• Proven experience coordinating server migration and cutover activities within large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud migration methodologies and migration lifecycles.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of:
  • Windows & Linux Server environments
  • Active Directory
  • DNS
  • Firewalls
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Infrastructure services
• Strong project coordination and planning skills.
• Experience managing project risks, issues, governance, and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to perform under pressure within highly complex programmes.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Azure cloud migration programmes.
• Exposure to AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience using migration tooling such as Azure Migrate, CloudEndure, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with ITIL Service Management principles.
• Experience working within large enterprise transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience coordinating hypercare and operational handover activities.

If you enjoy coordinating high-impact technology programmes, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring seamless cloud migration execution, we'd love to hear from you.