At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead large-scale datacentre migrations to AWS and enhance automation strategies.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company driving cloud transformation.
- Benefits: Earn £800 per day, enjoy remote work, and lead impactful projects.
- Other info: Fast interview process with opportunities for long-term career growth.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of cloud innovation and make a significant impact.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in cloud migrations and strong AWS expertise required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
MERITUS are recruiting for a Cloud Migration Lead to join one of our clients on an initial contract basis. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on delivering a large-scale datacentre exit programme, migrating critical production environments from on-premises infrastructure into AWS.
About the Role
Our client is undertaking a business-critical cloud transformation programme to migrate multiple production environments from legacy UK datacentres into AWS before a fixed December 2026 deadline. This is not a project management role. They require a senior technical leader who can take ownership of the migration strategy, provide architectural direction, enhance existing automation and ensure successful production cutovers across several parallel migration workstreams. You'll work alongside established engineering teams, removing technical blockers and making key architectural decisions to ensure migrations are delivered safely and on schedule.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of large-scale datacentre to AWS migrations.
- Review, improve and extend existing migration automation using Infrastructure as Code.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple application migration teams.
- Define migration sequencing, architecture and deployment strategy.
- Identify and resolve infrastructure, networking, licensing and application compatibility issues.
- Own production cutover planning, execution and rollback strategies.
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure consistent technical standards.
- Communicate technical risks, progress and key decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Ensure production migrations are completed with minimal customer impact.
Required Experience
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise scale datacentre to cloud migrations.
- Strong AWS infrastructure and migration expertise.
- Solid understanding of VMware and traditional datacentre environments.
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of production infrastructure, networking, DNS, security and access management.
- Experience leading technical delivery across multiple engineering teams.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex migration challenges under tight delivery deadlines.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Desirable Experience
- Experience delivering large scale cloud transformation programmes.
- Knowledge of highly available production environments.
- Experience working within regulated or enterprise software organisations.
Benefits
- Remote working with occasional travel for key project milestones.
- Long term programme running through to December 2026.
- Opportunity to lead a high profile cloud transformation programme.
- Fast interview process.
- Immediate start available.
Cloud Migration Lead in London employer: Meritus
MERITUS is an excellent employer for Fabricators/Welders, offering a competitive salary and the chance to work on complex engineering projects within a supportive team environment in Telford, Shropshire. With opportunities for travel to Japan, Europe, and the USA, as well as a strong focus on employee training and development, you can expect a rewarding career that values quality workmanship and fosters professional growth.
