Azure Technical Migration Consultant

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:

o    Azure Stack Hub infrastructure

o    Azure Stack Edge deployments

o    Azure Local architecture

o    Azure Arc integration

o    Hybrid cloud connectivity

o    Azure networking

o    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.