W2 contract | Azure Migration Consultant

Noblesoft Technologies Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Part time

Job summary

Noblesoft Technologies Inc. seeks an Azure Technical Migration Consultant to lead complex migrations from Azure Stack Hub to Azure and Azure Local. The role emphasizes technical leadership, architecture governance, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid cloud environment.

You will guide migrations, validate automation, and coordinate with Microsoft and customer teams to ensure successful outcomes over a 6+ month contract. Hybrid work arrangement in Greater Seattle area is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise migrations.
• Proven ability to lead migration projects end-to-end.
• Experience with Azure Stack Hub, ASE, and Azure Local deployments.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub/ASE to Azure and Azure Local.
• Assess environments and determine migration patterns, sequencing and readiness.
• Lead discovery workshops to identify risks and dependencies.
• Review runbooks, rollback strategies, and operational plans.
• Coordinate with engineering teams on tool validation and automation.

Skills

Migration architecture

Technical leadership

Azure stack

Hybrid cloud

Tools

PowerShell

Migration scripts

Automation frameworks

Job description

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.