Implementation Team Establishment

An efficient and professional implementation team is the key to ensuring the success of the cloud migration project. The team is responsible for executing the cloud migration plan, performing the migration, and ensuring the success of each task in the cloud migration. The cloud migration implementation team should consist of professionals from different domains. Enterprises can set up a comprehensive and professional cloud migration implementation team based on the preceding CCoE organizational structure and role responsibilities. The following are the necessary members of the team.

• Project manager: a member of the Project Management Office (PMO) or an IT department member with extensive experience in project management. The project manager manages the entire cloud migration project and coordinates resources to resolve problems and ensure that the migration project is implemented as planned.
• Migration implementation engineer: a member of the IT department or an IT professional experienced in cloud migration. The engineer is responsible for migration implementation, including data migration, application migration, system configuration, and service cutover, and ensures data consistency and security as well as good system performance during migration. Migration implementation is a one-off task and is often outsourced to a cloud service provider or cloud implementation service provider.
• Cloud architect: an expert from the IT architecture department or one with profound cloud technology background. The cloud architect deploys and optimizes the cloud architecture and provides technical support and guidance for the implementation team.
• Cloud infrastructure administrator: a member of the O&M team from the IT department. The administrator manages the cloud infrastructure and establishes and implements the cloud O&M process to support the management, monitoring, and optimization of the cloud environment.
• Cloud security expert: a professional from the information security department or one with security compliance certification. The expert focuses on cloud security and compliance, ensures that the migration complies with industry standards, laws and regulations, and enterprises' management requirements. The expert also formulates and implements security policies to identify potential risks, and provides solutions.
• Application development engineer: a member of the application team from a business department. The engineer adapts services to the cloud and modernizes applications to ensure that applications can run efficiently, stably, and securely in the cloud environment.
• Application test engineer: a member of the test team. The engineer tests service functions, performance, availability, and scalability, and assists in the mock and real cutover.