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Ensures workloads are proven correct in the target VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment before a wave is declared complete, acting as the quality gate that keeps execution honest and repeatable.\n\nCareer Level Summary :\n\n- Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines.\n\n- Solves complex problems.\n\n- Works independently, receives minimal guidance.\n\n- May lead projects or project steps within a broader project or may have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives.\n\n- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.\n\nCritical Competencies :\n\n- Excellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.\n\n- Customer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.\n\n- Expertise: Possesses deep understanding of customer needs and continually grows and enhances skills to provide customer-focused solutions.\n\n- Agility: Quickly adapts and responds to dynamic customer needs and expectations through innovative solutions.\n\n- Compassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders.\n\nKey Responsibilities :\n\n- Owns pre-migration validation checks, confirming source workload readiness against the Migration Architect's approved design before a wave is scheduled to proceed.\n\n- Owns post-migration validation checks, confirming migrated workloads are proven correct and functioning as expected in the target VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment before a wave is declared complete.\n\n- Plans and executes rollback rehearsals for each wave, validating that rollback procedures defined by the Migration Architect can be executed successfully within the wave's maintenance window.\n\n- Owns backup validation activities (e.g., Cohesity) for migrated workloads, confirming backup jobs, retention policies, and recovery points are correctly re-established in the target environment.\n\n- Partners with the Senior Migration Engineer and Migration Engineer (Mid) to define pre/post-check criteria and acceptance thresholds for each migration wave.\n\n- Documents validation results, defects, and rollback rehearsal outcomes, and escalates any workload that fails to meet wave completion criteria to the Senior Technical Consultant.\n\n- Coordinates with the Network/NSX Engineer to validate network connectivity, routing, and segmentation for migrated workloads post-cutover.\n\n- Works with the Documentation/Runbook Specialist to ensure validation checklists and rollback rehearsal procedures are captured in reusable runbooks.\n\n- Maintains a wave-level quality dashboard/tracker, reporting validation status to the Migration Coordinator/PMO and Technical Project Manager.\n\n- Continuously improves validation test scripts and automates repetitive checks in partnership with the Automation Engineer to reduce manual validation effort per wave.\n\n- Proposes and implements enhancements to validation processes that improve the accuracy, speed, and repeatability of wave sign-off.\n\nKnowledge : \n\n- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of VMware vSphere, vSAN, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) workload validation practices.\n\n- Intermediate knowledge of backup and recovery platforms such as Cohesity, including backup job configuration and recovery point validation.\n\n- Intermediate knowledge of rollback design principles and migration rehearsal methodologies.\n\n- Intermediate knowledge of network fundamentals sufficient to validate post-cutover connectivity in coordination with the Network/NSX Engineer.\n\nSkills :\n\n- Migration Quality Assurance & Validation\n\n- Rollback Rehearsal\n\n- Backup & Recovery Validation (Cohesity)\n\n- AI/Machine Learning\n\n- Cloud Computing\n\n- Cybersecurity\n\n- DevOps Coding Skills\n\n- Network/Systems Skills\n\n- Technical Writing Skills\n\n- Process Improvement\n\nEducation :\n\n- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in a field related to role.\n\nCertifications :\n\n- VMware Certified Professional - 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