Azure Technical Migration Consultant

VDart, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart, Inc. is seeking an Azure Technical Migration Consultant for a long-term contract in the Greater Seattle area.

The role focuses on migration architecture and technical leadership for moves from Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge to Azure and Azure Local, with emphasis on hybrid cloud integration. You will assess environments, design migration patterns, and lead workshops to identify risks and dependencies, while validating methodologies with Microsoft engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Migration architecture and technical leadership responsibilities.
• Deep technical guidance on Azure Stack Hub infrastructure and edge deployments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud connectivity and Azure networking.

Responsibilities

• Migration Architecture & Technical Leadership.
• Serve as the technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge to Azure and Azure Local.
• Assess customer environments and determine optimal migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, and readiness.
• Provide inputs to design and migration approaches covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and DR.
• Lead technical discovery workshops to identify risks, unsupported configurations, and dependencies.
• Review and approve migration runbooks, rollback strategies, and operational readiness plans.
• Validate migration methodologies with Microsoft engineering teams for field applicability.
• Lead root cause analyses for failed or delayed migrations.
• Develop migration guides, decision trees, troubleshooting guides, and best practices.
• Create reusable artifacts to improve migration consistency across customers.
• Lead technical discussions with strategic customers and present architecture roadmaps.
• Communicate migration risks, blockers, and remediation options.
• Conduct executive-level technical briefings and support critical migration events.

Skills

Azure Stack Hub

Azure Stack Edge

Azure Local

Azure Arc

Hybrid cloud

PowerShell

Job description

Job Title: Azure Technical Migration Consultant

Location: Greater Seattle (WA) -- Hybrid

Duration: Long-Term Contract

10+ Years Experience

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.