GCP Migration Specialist

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced Migration Specialist to plan, manage, and execute IT migration projects, ensuring the secure and seamless transfer of applications, infrastructure, data, and services from Legacy environments to modern platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise in migration planning, data validation, troubleshooting, and post-migration support.

Key Responsibilities

Required Skills

• Plan and execute end-to-end IT migration activities with minimal business disruption.
• Assess existing infrastructure, applications, databases, and systems to define migration strategies.
• Perform data migration, system upgrades, cloud migrations, and platform transitions as required.
• Develop migration plans, timelines, testing procedures, rollback strategies, and documentation.
• Validate data integrity, system functionality, and performance after migration.
• Identify and resolve migration-related issues, risks, and technical dependencies.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, application, security, database, and business teams.
• Ensure compliance with security policies, data protection standards, and project requirements.
• Provide post-migration support and optimize the migrated environment.
• Proven experience in IT migration projects, system transitions, or data migration.
• Knowledge of migration methodologies, tools, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Servers, databases, applications, networks, and cloud platforms.
• Understanding of Windows/Linux environments, infrastructure, and security best practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience with migration tools and platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, VMware, or database migration utilities, depending on the project.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6-12 Months
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 53-53 EUR/h