Cloud Engineer

Job#: 3051179

Job Description:

Cloud Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ/ Charlotte NC/ Plano TX (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview

This position is for a lead who will manage enterprise-scale End of Life (EOL) technology remediation efforts across internal compute environments. The primary focus is on migrating legacy workloads to a new hyperconverged internal cloud virtual hosting platform. The role involves the assessment, planning, execution tracking, and remediation of approximately 14,000 servers across distributed, grid-based, and legacy cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end EOL remediation lifecycle, including stakeholder coordination, capacity planning, and migration strategy alignment.
• Partner with platform and workload owners to identify, assess, and document the EOL server inventory.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive remediation plan and tracking mechanism for approximately 14,000 servers.
• Create and manage capacity plans to support large-scale workload migration to the hyperconverged internal cloud platform.
• Drive alignment with engineering, architecture, and product teams to ensure target-state platform adoption.
• Establish and report on KPIs and progress metrics, focusing on platform migration rate and timeline adherence.
• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies, and drive issue resolution across organizational boundaries.
• Provide executive-level visibility through status reporting, dashboards, and escalation management.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering/management roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale remediation or migration programs.
• Understanding of server lifecycle management, EOL processes, and infrastructure environments.
• Ability to drive cross-organizational alignment across product, engineering, and operations teams.
• Experience building and managing capacity plans and execution tracking frameworks.
• Primary skills include Enterprise Technology Remediation, Capacity Planning, and Cross-Functional Leadership.
• Technical skills include DevOps, Kubernetes, and RedHat OpenShift.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) or private/internal cloud platforms.
• Background in financial services or other regulated enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with grid computing environments and distributed workload patterns.
• Advanced proficiency in data visualization/reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Executive communication skills, including status reporting to senior leadership.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Location:

Jersey City, NJ, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

September 9, 2026

Pay Range:

$65 - $73 per hour

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