Azure Cloud Platform Architect for Enterprise Migration

prosource.it; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

prosource.it is seeking a Cloud & Platform Technical Specialist in the UK to drive a major cloud transformation. You will provide hands-on Azure design, architecture leadership and governance, coordinating with MSPs and internal teams across migration, platform engineering and infrastructure services.

The role reports to the Platform, Cloud & Identity Manager with day-to-day technical direction from the Cloud & Platform Architect.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering with significant recent hands-on Microsoft Azure experience, including enterprise Azure migration delivery and work within MSP or supplier-delivered environments.
• Azure Landing Zones, governance and Azure Policy; Azure networking, Virtual WAN (vWAN) and hybrid connectivity
• Entra ID, Active Directory, RBAC and DNS; Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) design and engineering
• Azure VM, GPU and HPC workloads; enterprise storage, NAS/Nasuni and large-scale data migration
• Azure security, firewalls and Private Endpoints; Terraform/Bicep, PowerShell and Azure CLI automation
• Azure Migrate, workload assessment and migration execution; Azure Monitor, backup, disaster recovery and operational support
• Microsoft Azure certification: AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) and/or AZ-700 (Azure Networking Solutions)
• Degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Engage as a technical specialist to steer managed service partners delivering the Azure migration, ensuring their work aligns with the target architecture and standards
• Review and approve partner-produced Azure Migrate assessments, dependency mapping, sizing, wave plans, designs and runbooks before execution
• Oversee partner-led VM, GPU/HPC and NAS/Nasuni data migrations through cutover and early-life support, challenging approaches and resolving technical escalations
• Define platform requirements for, and provide design assurance over, partner builds of Azure Landing Zones, governance, Azure Policy and RBAC
• Assure partner designs for Azure networking, security, Entra ID/AD integration and Azure Virtual Desktop
• Verify that Azure Monitor, backup and disaster recovery and other key deliverables are in place before services are accepted into operations
• Set and maintain the design standards, patterns and acceptance criteria partners must follow; contribute to design authority reviews and elevate decisions outside standards
• Quality-assure partner infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform/Bicep) and automation (PowerShell, Azure CLI) for consistency, security and reusability
• Ensure partners deliver complete, accurate designs, configuration records and runbooks that are retained by the organisation
• Track partner technical delivery against scope, milestones and quality, raising risks, issues and gaps early with the Platform, Cloud & Identity Manager
• Govern handover of migrated services into operations, including operational readiness and acceptance sign-off
• Bridge partners and internal infrastructure, security, network, application and service management teams, ensuring knowledge transfer to internal staff

Skills

Azure design

Azure landing zones

Azure networking

Entra ID/AD

Azure Virtual Desktop

Terraform

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Azure Monitor

Azure Migrate

Backup & disaster recovery

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Job description

prosource.it is seeking a Cloud & Platform Technical Specialist in the UK to drive a major cloud transformation. You will provide hands-on Azure design, architecture leadership and governance, coordinating with MSPs and internal teams across migration, platform engineering and infrastructure services.

The role reports to the Platform, Cloud & Identity Manager with day-to-day technical direction from the Cloud & Platform Architect.