Job Title: Azure Technical Migration Consultant
Job Location: Greater Seattle, WA (Hybrid 2-3 days onsite/ week)
Job Duration: 6+ months
Minimum years of experience required: 10+ years
Type of Hire: w2 contract
JOB DETAILS:
Technical Focus (70%)
Migration Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Serve as the technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub (ASH) and Azure Stack Edge (ASE) to Azure and Azure Local.
- Assess customer environments and determine optimal migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, and technical readiness.
- Provide inputs to design, team migration approaches covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery considerations.
- Lead technical discovery workshops to identify migration risks, unsupported configurations, hardware constraints, and integration dependencies.
- Review and seek approval for migration runbooks, engineering procedures, rollback strategies, and operational readiness plans.
- Validate migration methodologies developed by Microsoft engineering teams and ensure field applicability.
Azure Infrastructure Engineering
- Provide deep technical guidance on:
- Azure Stack Hub infrastructure
- Azure Stack Edge deployments
- Azure Local architecture
- Azure Arc integration
- Hybrid cloud connectivity
- Azure networking
- Identity and access management
- Evaluate customer environments for migration readiness and recommend remediation activities.
- Guide engineers through complex troubleshooting scenarios involving hybrid infrastructure and edge environments.
Migration Automation & Tool Validation
- Review and validate migration scripts, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling produced by engineering teams.
- Troubleshoot PowerShell-based migration workflows and identify execution failures.
- Validate migration prerequisites, dependency checks, and operational controls.
- Ensure migration automation is repeatable, scalable, and production-ready.
Technical Escalation Management
- Act as Tier-3/Tier-4 technical escalation point for complex migration issues.
- Coordinate directly with Microsoft Product Engineering teams on defects, product limitations, and feature gaps.
- Lead root cause analysis activities for failed or delayed migrations.
- Develop mitigation and recovery plans for high-risk migration scenarios.
Documentation & Knowledge Engineering
- Own technical migration guidance and operational documentation.
- Review Microsoft Learn content for technical accuracy.
- Develop migration decision trees, troubleshooting guides, and technical best practices.
- Create reusable engineering artifacts to improve migration consistency across customers.
Customer & Stakeholder Focus (30%)
- Lead technical discussions with strategic and high-touch customers.
- Present migration architecture recommendations and technical roadmaps.
- Communicate migration risks, technical blockers, and remediation options.
- Conduct executive-level technical briefings.
- Support customer escalations and critical migration events.
- Partner with Microsoft Account Teams, CSA teams, Product Engineering, and Support organizations.