Lead Migration Engineer

Job Description Lead Migration Engineer

Experience: 12 to 15+

Location: Remote (work in Pacific time).

• Linux: deep hands-on knowledge of the RHEL family, including end-of-life CentOS and Oracle Linux, and working knowledge of FreeBSD. Troubleshooting, performance tuning, and package and dependency management.Hands-on depth in Linux, legacy applications and data center migrations is essential.
• Legacy applications: Perl 5, CPAN, Apache, cron and Make-based builds. Reading code to find hidden dependencies such as shared paths, hard-coded hosts and database endpoints.
• Virtualization and migration: VMware vCenter and VM migration tooling. Dependency mapping, wave planning, runbooks, rehearsals, weekend cutovers, rollback and hypercare.
• Storage: NFS and NetApp, including moving a shared file system without changing its paths.
• Databases: MySQL/Percona operations, replication, backup and restore, and moving databases with minimal downtime.
• Containers: Docker (building and running images for legacy applications) and working knowledge of Kubernetes (deployments, CronJobs, volumes).
• Networking: DNS, load balancers such as NetScaler, Cloudflare, firewall rules and IP allowlisting.
• Automation: Bash, Perl, Ansible and Packer; Git and GitLab CI/CD.
• AI-assisted engineering: AI coding assistants for code analysis and runbooks, with engineering review of every output.
• Leadership and communication: leading an offshore team, writing clear documentation, and working side by side with the client's engineers.

• Google Cloud experience: Compute Engine, GKE, Filestore / Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Migrate to Virtual Machines and Migration Center.
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or similar certification.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Accliive, is an Engineering and IT Talent Services company working with Fortune 500 clients and is based out of Boston, MA. Accliive works extensively in all the major industries like Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Aerospace, BFSI, Oil and Gas, Utilities, Healthcare and many more. Acclive is focused on providing customer centric solutions and career centric solutions.