Job ID: JOB_ID_6932
Job Description: Azure Platform Architect
We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform Architect to lead application and workload migration discovery, assessment, and planning, and to drive execution governance. This role involves close partnership with application owners, security, and operations teams to gather essential technical and business inputs. You will be responsible for determining migration readiness, selecting appropriate migration approaches (rehost/refactor/retire/retain), defining migration waves and sequencing, and ensuring that all risks, dependencies, and acceptance criteria are clearly understood and documented.
- Azure Subscriptions and Landing Zones Design
- Proficiency in Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Extensive experience in Azure Migrations, including discovery, assessment, dependency analysis, and migration waves
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), AzCopy, or equivalent
- Experience with scripting for discovery/assessment reporting using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and/or Python
- Familiarity with Azure Monitor and App Insights
- Experience with Azure DevOps and Github
- Knowledge of Azure Arc
- 8-12 years of relevant experience
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end migration discovery: build and validate application inventory, identify owners, capture workload criticality, SLAs, and environment details (production/non-production).
- Perform migration assessments and readiness analysis: map dependencies, determine sizing, identify constraints, consider licensing, and pinpoint migration blockers.
- Define migration strategy per workload (e.g., rehost, re-platform, refactor, retire, retain) and provide a clear rationale, associated risks, and effort assumptions.
- Create migration waves and sequencing plans that account for dependencies, business calendars, and cutover complexity; maintain an integrated migration plan.
- Experience in migrating various Azure services: Virtual Machines, SQL, Storage accounts, etc.
- Experience in implementing High Availability & Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
- Maintain strong documentation discipline: produce assessment outputs, target migration approaches per application, and dependency diagrams.
- Experience defining and running a migration factory operating model, including intake, assessment, wave planning, cutover management, and reporting cadence.
- Experience assessing legacy Azure tenants retained for legal hold/retention and defining long-term retention strategies aligned with target platforms.
- Familiarity with the migration of Microsoft Dynamics and Azure Arc.
- Possess certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert and/or Azure Administrator Associate.
Required Skills:
- Digital Transformation: Microsoft Azure
- Experience Required: 8-10 years
- Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python
- Monitoring: Azure Monitor, App Insights
- DevOps: Azure DevOps, Github
- Cloud Services: Azure Arc
- Migration Tools: Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), AzCopy
- High Availability & DR implementation
- Strong documentation and reporting skills
- Experience with migration factory operating models
- Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics migration
- Relevant Azure certifications are highly desirable.
Special Requirements
ONSITE- Remote/Raleigh NC, 6 months duration
Compensation & Location
Salary: $120,000 – $160,000 per year (Estimated)
Location: Raleigh, NC
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Email: tosh.yambari@configusa.com
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