Datacenter Migration Technical Lead

Job Description

Overview Insight Global is seeking a highly technical Datacenter Migration Lead to support a large-scale infrastructure transformation initiative for a Fortune 500 client. This individual will play a critical role in migrating two enterprise data centers located in Chicago and Alpharetta into a new colocation environment. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader who can bridge the gap between infrastructure engineering teams, application owners, and migration partners. They will be responsible for coordinating migration planning efforts, documenting dependencies, driving execution, and ensuring critical applications and infrastructure components are successfully transitioned with minimal business disruption. The successful candidate must possess strong VMware expertise, understand modern networking and infrastructure architectures, and have experience leading complex data center migrations involving multiple stakeholders and interconnected systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and coordination activities for enterprise data center migration initiatives
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, application, security, and operations teams to gather migration requirements
• Identify and document application dependencies, server relationships, and infrastructure interdependencies
• Map application traffic flows and determine migration sequencing requirements
• Develop migration runbooks, cutover plans, risk assessments, and validation procedures
• Coordinate multiple technical teams throughout planning and execution phases
• Facilitate migration readiness reviews and stakeholder meetings
• Participate in after-hours migration cutovers and post-migration validation activities
• Work closely with external migration partners to ensure successful execution
• Track migration progress, issues, risks, and remediation efforts
• Help establish documentation and governance around migration activities
• Validate network, compute, storage, and virtualization requirements within the target colocation environment

Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years of infrastructure engineering and/or data center migration experience

• Proven experience leading large-scale data center migration projects

• Strong VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) expertise

• Experience with: o VMware vSphere o VMware vSAN o VMware NSX

• Strong understanding of network segmentation and NSX-based network architectures

• Experience identifying application dependencies and system interconnections

• Ability to analyze and document application traffic flows and infrastructure relationships

• Strong infrastructure background spanning compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies

• Experience creating migration strategies, runbooks, cutover plans, and operational documentation

• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills

• Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers, architects, application teams, and leadership

• Experience with colocation facility migrations

• Familiarity with Zerto replication and migration technologies

• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives

• Knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity planning

• Experience working with hybrid infrastructure environments

• Exposure to cloud migration or cloud transformation projects

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].