IBM Cloud Migration Engineer

Objective: Provision and operate Government Commerical Cloud C Azure landing zone and IaaS infrastructure to host, meeting GCC 2.0 compartmentalisation and security requirements.

What you'll be doing

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 9.0 environments and Java applications to Azure IaaS (VM-based) with minimal refactoring.

• Rehost IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 9.0 web servers including clustering / load balancing configurations; coordinate DNS/VIP cutover.

• Migrate batch automation and scheduled jobs (including batch job components) and validate end-to-end runs.

• Rehost SAP Crystal Server 2020 reporting services and Apache Tomcat configurations, ensuring report parity post-migration.

• Coordinate with Infrastructure Engineer to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), Virtual IPs, and load balancing patterns in Azure.

• Update/validate application-to-database connectivity (ODBC/OLEDB), connection strings, and driver compatibility.

• Execute system integration testing (SIT), performance smoke checks, and migration validation; support UAT and go-live.

• Provide hypercare and production support (incident/problem management), including runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge transfer.

What we're looking for

• Extensive experience (5-8 years) as a full-stack developer or migration engineer

• IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0 administration (profiles, cells, nodes, clustering) and troubleshooting.

• Java application deployment and operations (logs, JVM tuning basics, packaging/build artifacts).

• BM HTTP Server 9.0 configuration (plugins, SSL, virtual hosts) and load balancing integration.

• SAP Crystal Server 2020 administration and Apache Tomcat operations.

• Windows Server 2019 and WSFC fundamentals; PowerShell automation for repeatable builds.

• Experience migrating enterprise applications to cloud (rehost), including cutover planning, rollback and validation.

• Operational support experience (ITIL incident/problem/change), documentation and KT.