HCX Migration SME

Responsibilities

• Conduct infrastructure discovery workshops and technical assessments.
• Perform cloud readiness assessments and application dependency mapping.
• Define migration strategy, wave planning, and execution roadmap.
• Design OCI landing zone architecture aligned with governance and security standards.
• Identify migration risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Prepare detailed migration runbooks and executive-level reports.
• Deploy, configure, and operate VMware HCX for workload migration.
• Configure HCX Interconnect, Service Mesh, and Network Extension.
• Execute live (vMotion), bulk, and cold migrations.
• Implement Layer 2 extension and ensure seamless network connectivity.
• Validate post-migration performance, security, and stability.
• Troubleshoot migration, networking, and performance issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, security, and cloud teams.

• Discovery, Analysis & Planning (DAP)
• Conduct infrastructure discovery workshops and technical assessments.
• Perform cloud readiness assessments and application dependency mapping.
• Define migration strategy, wave planning, and execution roadmap.
• Design OCI landing zone architecture aligned with governance and security standards.
• Identify migration risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Prepare detailed migration runbooks and executive-level reports.
• Deploy, configure, and operate VMware HCX for workload migration.
• Configure HCX Interconnect, Service Mesh, and Network Extension.
• Execute live (vMotion), bulk, and cold migrations.
• Implement Layer 2 extension and ensure seamless network connectivity.
• Validate post-migration performance, security, and stability.
• Troubleshoot migration, networking, and performance issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, security, and cloud teams.

• Strong hands‑on experience with VMware HCX workload migration.
• Deep knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong expertise in VMware NSX and network virtualization.
• Proven experience in enterprise data center transformation projects.
• Hands‑on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience in hybrid cloud and on‑prem to cloud migration.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (L2/L3, routing, firewall, security).
• Excellent documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

• VMware and/or OCI certifications.
• Experience in large‑scale enterprise migration programs.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) architectures.
• Experience working in multi‑vendor cloud environments.