Job Title:- Workload Placement Engineer

Location:- Mexico (Prefered)/Latam (Remote)

Duration:- Contract

Job Description :

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Workload Placement Engineer to support enterprise workload placement, workload migration and overall cloud adoption. This role will be responsible for assessing application portfolios, performing cloud suitability evaluations, conducting dependency analysis, and migrating workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, colocation, and SaaS solutions.

The Workload Placement Engineer will partner with application owners, enterprise architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to ensure workloads are placed in the most appropriate hosting environment based on business, technical, operational, financial, and compliance requirements.

The adecuado candidate combines cloud knowledge, application assessment experience, and strong analytical skills to drive informed workload placement decisions and accelerate modernization and migration programs.

Key Responsibilities

Workload Assessment & Placement

- Conduct workload discovery and assessment activities across application portfolios.
- Perform cloud suitability assessments and disposition analysis using established decision frameworks.
- Evaluate workload characteristics, dependencies, business criticality, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
- Recommend workload placement options including Cloud, SaaS, Colocation, On-Premises, Edge, or Hybrid environments.
- Document placement decisions, rationale, risks, and assumptions.

Application Dependency Mapping & Analysis

- Analyze application dependencies using CMDB, monitoring tools, discovery platforms, and stakeholder interviews.
- Validate upstream and downstream application relationships.
- Support dependency-based grouping and migration wave planning.




- Identify potential migration blockers, integration risks, and remediation requirements.
- Maintain workload inventory and dependency repositories.

Migration Readiness & Modernization Support

- Support migration planning and readiness assessments.
- Assist application teams in understanding modernization opportunities and disposition options (6R's).
- Participate in migration wave planning and prioritization activities.
- Align workload requirements with target landing zones and platform capabilities.
- Support tracking and reporting of migration readiness metrics.

Governance & Standards

- Ensure workload placement recommendations align with Enterprise Architecture standards and approved technology patterns.
- Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, EA, FinOps, and Platform Engineering teams.
- Participate in architecture reviews and workload placement governance processes.
- Support exceptions management and documentation.
- Contribute to workload placement standards, decision trees, and guidance documentation.

Data Analysis & Reporting

- Maintain workload assessment data and placement decisions.
- Develop dashboards and reports to track assessment progress, migration readiness, workload disposition, and placement outcomes.
- Analyze trends and provide insights to stakeholders and leadership.
- Support data-driven decision making for cloud adoption and data center exit programs.

Required Qualifications

Experience

- 8+ years of overall IT experience.




- 3+ years of experience in cloud migration, application assessment, infrastructure, architecture, or technology consulting.
- Experience in supporting cloud adoption or data center migration initiatives.
- Experience in conducting application discovery, assessment, or dependency mapping activities.

Technical Skills

- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage, compute, and security services.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads.
- Hands-on experience of using GitHub, GitOps, GHCP
- Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts using Terraform
- Understanding of Windows & Linux operating system
- Knowledge of Azure Migrate (or other tools) and cloud suitability assessment methodologies.
- Experience with application dependency mapping and discovery tools.
- Familiarity with CMDB platforms, monitoring tools, and migration assessment solutions.
- Understanding of infrastructure, networking, databases, security, and application architectures.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted assessment and automation tools is preferred.
- Passion for automation, AI & Cloud Technologies

Soft Skills

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong documentation and presentation skills.
- Ability to work across multiple teams and manage competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator, or Azure Solutions Architect certifications.
- Azure Migrate experience.
- Experience with cloud migrations.
- Exp with Cloud Infrastructure and Software solutions

Educational Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Relevant cloud or technology certifications preferred.

📌 Workload Placement Engineer (México)
🏢 InfiCare Staffing
📍 México