Case Study
Strategic Cloud Talent Placement for Transformation
How Cirrus Group Consulting Helped a Fortune 50 Financial Services Firm Optimize Cloud Migration
Client
A Fortune 50 financial services firm
Industry
Financial Services
Background & Hiring Challenges
Our client needed to migrate its legacy multi-family acquisitions application to AWS but lacked in-house expertise to navigate complex refactoring and security requirements. Cirrus Group Consulting placed a senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer who not only executed the lift-and-shift to AWS Fargate but also became a team leader, documented best practices, and de-risked future migrations with a significant impact on cost savings and security.
Key challenges faced by our client included:
- No internal expertise in legacy Java (EJB, JBoss) and AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, Step Functions
- Needed to maintain integrations with on-prem systems via an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- Urgency: Required a consultant who could own outcomes, not just execute tasks
Our client partnered with Cirrus Group Consulting, leveraging our specialized staffing expertise to find niche cloud talent with a proven ability to lead transformational migrations and mentor teams. Key success factors included precision matching with AWS Fargate and legacy Java modernization expertise, speed of placement within 2 weeks, and ongoing mentoring beyond execution to reduce long-term dependency on external consultants.
Roles Placed for the Client
Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer: Led AWS Fargate migration, designed architecture, and mentored internal teams
Key Results
Cost savings from decommissioning legacy hardware and reducing monitoring overhead
Faster deployment, completing pre-production testing ahead of schedule
Automated security and compliance checks
Established a scalable blueprint for migrating 100+ additional applications
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