Cloud Migration Implementation Specialist

Roles/Responsibilities:

Professional Services Requirements

• Conduct discovery and assessment of current infrastructure (compute, storage, network, applications).
• Develop migration strategy, including inventory, wave planning, and cost analysis.
• Design and deploy cloud landing zone architecture.
• Implement migration tooling and automation (e.g., Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines).
• Support network environment transition and changes.
• Execute migration in phases (rehost, replatform, refactor as needed).
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to LAUSD staff.
• Post-migration stabilization and support for ongoing operations.
• Support for open, industry-standard interfaces, APIs, and configuration formats to ensure seamless compatibility with existing District systems, including monitoring, identity services, automation pipelines, logging, and security tools.
• Compatibility with District-approved open-source aligned technologies (e.g., container orchestration platforms, declarative infrastructure frameworks) for the purpose of ensuring integration flexibility, workload portability, and avoidance of proprietary lock-in.
• Ability to integrate without requiring proprietary agents, clients, or licensed connectors, except where necessary for security controls approved by the District.
• Use of provider-operated global network backbones to deliver consistent multi-region connectivity, low-latency data routing, and resilient transport suitable for District workloads.
• Granular consumption-based billing models (e.g., per-second or equivalent metering) to align cloud costs with District workload utilization patterns, along with automatic usage-based discounts that do not require long-term contractual commitments.
• Support for multi-account or multi-project segmentation models, enabling distributed governance, delegated administration, cost reporting, and organizational separation as required by the district.
• Native compatibility with standardized IAM frameworks, including policy-based authorization, role delegation, hierarchical resource controls, and integration with District identity systems.
• Ability to integrate District network connectivity using open networking standards (e.g., IPSec, BGP, VPN, interconnect options) without reliance on closed, proprietary networking technologies.
• Availability of modular cloud services (compute, storage, analytics, networking, machine learning) that can be deployed independently and integrated into District workflows using standard APIs.
• Support for open-format workload portability, allowing workloads, configurations, and container-based applications to remain portable across environments without re-engineering.
• Compatibility with District security, monitoring, and compliance tools through open logging standards, audit export capabilities, and policy-level integration points.
• Support for future-state extensibility, including the ability to integrate non-proprietary third-party tools for security, observability, analytics, and automation via open interfaces.

DELIVERABLES

• Discovery: Requirements gathering interviews, inventory of workloads.
• Planning: Customized migration plan for LAUSD.
• Install & Configure: Set up cloud environment, configure policies and integrations.
• Migration Execution: Migrate workloads in waves, quality assurance, and acceptance testing.
• Go-Live: Complete monitoring setup, generate standard reports.
• Knowledge Transfer: Workshops and documentation for LAUSD staff.
• Stabilization: Post-deployment support (minimum 1 month).
• Reporting: Daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports as requested.
• Ongoing Cost: Ongoing payment for continued cloud services or a prepaid option. The latter option for reserved or prepaid, with potential savings, is preferred.

Mandatory Skills:

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in design, architecture, and deployment of cloud migration and application monitoring solutions for large enterprises ( 50,000 staff, 50 applications).
• Experience with public sector or educational institutions preferred.
• Availability for interview, collaboration, and demonstration during standard business hours within five days of solicitation close.
• Minimum product qualification: Proposed solution must be recognized in a leading industry analyst report (e.g., Gartner Magic Quadrant) for cloud migration, services, and virtualization.
• Experience gathering requirements and converting to architecture/design documents.
• Ability to integrate with current District technology tools for patch management, security, and monitoring.
• Experience with gap analysis, current/future state documentation.
• Direct experience deploying enterprise-grade cloud migration solutions.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices.
• Strong communication, organization, and consensus-building skills.
• Experience in multi-project/program environments.
• BS/BA in IT or related discipline.
• Experience with public sector/education preferred.

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