VMWare to Hyper V migration Project manager

Role: Senior Technical Project Manager (VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V Migration)

Location: 100% Remote

Experience: 10–15+ years overall; 5+ years in infrastructure / virtualization programs

Environment: Enterprise on-premises data centers; production and disaster recovery

Project Duration Weight

VMware-to-Hyper-V migration leadership - 30%

Enterprise data center migration management - 20%

VMware and Hyper-V technical fluency - 20%

Estimated 12–18 months - 15%

Governance, vendors and stakeholders - 10%

Regulated / mission-critical operations - 5%

Position Summary:

• Lead a large-scale enterprise migration from VMware vSphere/ESXi to Microsoft Hyper-V across on-premises data centers. Own integrated delivery planning, governance, resources, cross-team dependencies, migration waves, production cutovers, validation, and transition to steady-state operations. Partner closely with a dedicated Hyper-V Solution Architect for technical design authority.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Project governance and delivery — Build and maintain the charter, master schedule, budget, resourcing plan, dependency map, RAID log, milestone tracker, and executive reporting. Coordinate internal teams, Microsoft and other third-party partners.
• Discovery and migration planning — Oversee VMware VM, host, cluster and application inventory; classify workloads by business criticality and compatibility; coordinate target-state architecture reviews, proof of concept, pilot execution, and wave sequencing.
• Cross-functional coordination — Align compute, Windows/Linux, storage, networking, security, backup, monitoring, DR, and application owners. Track migration prerequisites including licensing, capacity, OS support, application certification, and integration dependencies.
• Execution and cutover — Run migration readiness reviews, change approvals, maintenance windows, bridge calls, cutover checklists, rollback decisions and post-migration application acceptance. Monitor failures, rework and migration throughput.
• Operational handover — Coordinate updated runbooks, backup/restore tests, monitoring, access, incident escalation, hypercare, DR validation, decommissioning, and formal service acceptance.

Required technical understanding:

• VMware — ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, vMotion, HA, DRS, distributed virtual switches and familiarity with vSAN.
• Microsoft virtualization — Hyper-V, Windows Server Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes, Live Migration, Hyper-V virtual switches, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center.
• Enterprise dependencies — SAN/NAS, iSCSI/Fibre Channel, VLANs, network segmentation, Active Directory, Linux/Windows guest systems, enterprise backups, DR and monitoring.
• Migration practices — V2V conversion approaches, compatibility assessment, pilot gates, wave-based cutovers, recovery checkpoints, rollback criteria and production validation.
• Management tooling — MS Project, Jira or equivalent, ServiceNow change management, PowerShell awareness and dashboard/reporting tools.

Qualifications:

• Essential — Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; 10+ years in IT infrastructure, including 5+ years leading complex infrastructure or virtualization migrations; proven executive stakeholder management, supplier coordination and production change discipline.
• Strongly preferred — Direct ownership of at least one VMware-to-Hyper-V migration, or comparable enterprise hypervisor transition, involving hundreds of VMs; experience coordinating production and DR environments.

Certifications: PMP or PRINCE2; ITIL 4; relevant VMware VCP-DCV or Microsoft Windows Server/Hyper-V credentials are beneficial, not substitutes for delivery experience.

Expected deliverables: Approved integrated plan and RAID register; infrastructure assessment and dependency inventory; wave schedule and readiness gates; pilot results; production cutover and rollback packs; weekly executive status; application validation and sign-offs; hypercare and operations acceptance package.