Senior Azure Developer

Company Overview

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone's best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT. With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity. Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients. With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed.

Job Overview

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Azure Developer with strong expertise in migrating on-premises infrastructure and applications to Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing, executing, and optimizing cloud migration strategies while ensuring security, scalability, and performance. This role requires hands-on technical leadership and close collaboration with infrastructure, security, and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute end-to-end migration of on-prem servers, applications, and databases to Azure
• Design and implement Azure cloud architecture using best practices for reliability, scalability, and cost optimization
• Perform migration assessments, dependency mapping, and workload prioritization
• Use Azure migration tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and Data Migration Service
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform
• Configure and manage Azure services including: Azure Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets Azure Storage (Blob, File, Disk) Virtual Networks, NSGs, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway
• Implement security and governance using Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policies, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
• Optimize performance, availability, and cost using Azure best practices
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members
• Create and maintain migration documentation, architecture diagrams, and runbooks

Required Skills & Experience

• 7-8 years of total IT experience, with at least 4-5 years of hands-on Azure experience
• Proven experience in on-prem to Azure migration projects
• Strong understanding of: Windows & Linux server administration Networking concepts (DNS, firewalls, routing, VPNs) High availability and disaster recovery architectures
• Hands-on experience with PowerShell and/or Azure CLI
• Experience with databases such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, or Managed Instances
• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity, and compliance
• Ability to analyze legacy environments and propose cloud-native solutions
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Good to Have / Preferred Skills

• Experience modernizing applications using PaaS services (App Service, Azure Functions, AKS)
• Exposure to containerization and Kubernetes (AKS)
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of cost management and Azure FinOps practices
• Prior experience in large-scale enterprise migration programs

Certifications (Preferred)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Compensation

Estimated Pay Range:

Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on circumstances of each case and will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Milestone we strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and work with, where we all feel empowered to bring our full, authentic selves to work. We know creating a diverse and inclusive culture that champions equity and belonging is not only the right thing to do for our employees but is also critical to our continued success.

Milestone Technologies provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, or local ordinance. Milestone also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.

We welcome the unique background, culture, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression and perspectives you can bring to our global community. Our recruitment team is looking forward to meeting you.