Cloud Migration Lead
Job in
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-07-22
Listing for:
Meritus
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-22
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 data centre exit programme, migrating critical production environments from on premises infrastructure into AWS.
CLOUD MIGRATION LEAD | £800 PER DAY | INSIDE IR35 (ASSESSMENT PENDING) | REMOTE (UK) WITH OCCASIONAL TRAVEL | AWS CLOUD MIGRATION | CONTRACT UNTIL DECEMBER 2026 | FAST INTERVIEW PROCESS
About the Role
Our client is undertaking a business critical cloud transformation programme to migrate multiple production environments from legacy UK data centres 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 work streams.
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 data centre 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 data centre to cloud migrations.
Strong AWS infrastructure and migration expertise.
Solid understanding of VMware and traditional data centre 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
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