- Proven experience coordinating complex technology transformation and migration projects in enterprise environments.
- Experience leading the transition of workloads from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift, from planning through execution and operational handover.
- Strong understanding of both virtualisation and container platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters, networking and storage
- OpenShift architecture, projects/namespaces, workloads, routes, storage and security concepts
- Application dependencies, interfaces, databases, monitoring, backup and recovery requirements
- Ability to develop and maintain an integrated transition roadmap covering assessment, design, build, migration waves, testing, cutover and decommissioning.
- Experience coordinating application, infrastructure, platform, network, storage, security, architecture and operations teams.
- Strong dependency-management skills, ensuring that technical prerequisites, application readiness and operational requirements are understood and tracked.
- Experience defining migration waves, prioritising workloads and coordinating migration activities with minimal disruption to business services.
- Strong understanding of migration planning, including Workload discovery and classification; Application and infrastructure dependency mapping; Compatibility and readiness assessments; Capacity and performance planning; Security and compliance requirements; Cutover, rollback and recovery planning
- Proven ability to manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions, with clear escalation where required.
- Experience coordinating testing activities, including functional, integration, performance, resilience and operational-acceptance testing.
- Strong governance and reporting skills, including preparation of status reports, steering-committee materials, milestone tracking and management information.
- Experience managing project plans, deliverables, actions and decision logs using appropriate project-management tools.
- Ability to coordinate change-management activities, ensuring that migration changes are assessed, approved, scheduled and communicated in line with established processes.
- Experience planning and coordinating operational handover, including support models, documentation, monitoring, backup, patching, incident procedures and service acceptance.
- Understanding of financial, licensing and capacity considerations associated with platform transformation and decommissioning legacy infrastructure.
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics into clear project-level decisions.
- A structured, delivery-focused and collaborative approach, with clear ownership of outcomes and the ability to drive progress across organisational boundaries.
- Very good English-language skills, both written and spoken.
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