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Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile

• **Assessment & Strategy:**Conduct deep-dive assessments of legacy applications, identifying dependencies, technical debt, and risks. Define 7R migration strategies (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc.).
• **Target Architecture Design:**Create architectural blueprints, reference models, and integration patterns for cloud-native applications using microservices, containers, and serverless technologies.
• **Modernization Execution:**Guide engineering teams through the modernization of monoliths into microservices, implementing API-first approaches.
• **Tooling & Automation:**Define and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to automate deployment.
• **Migration Implementation:**Leverage tools like AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate, or Google Cloud Migrate to execute data and workload migrations with minimal downtime.
• **Stakeholder Management:**Collaborate with business leaders, CIOs, and technical teams to align cloud strategies with business goals, presenting trade-offs and cost optimizations (FinOps).
• **Security & Compliance:**Ensure modernized applications adhere to security best practices (Identity & Access Management, Encryption, Secrets Management) and regulatory standards.
• **Mentorship:**Mentor junior engineers and developers on cloud-native design principles and best practices.