Azure Migration Engineer

Azure Migration Engineer (Contract - Remote)

Role: Azure Migration Engineer
Type: Contract - 3 Months
Location: Mainly Remote with some days expected in the London office
Rate: Competitive (Umbrella/PAYE)

Overview

We're supporting a large-scale Azure tenant-to-tenant migration programme and are looking for a hands-on Azure Migration Engineer to join an established Cloud Infrastructure team.

This is a key delivery role where you'll take ownership of migrating a complex estate of IaaS and PaaS workloads while ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute migration waves using Azure Migrate, leveraging dependency analysis tools
• Deliver tenant-to-tenant Azure migrations across infrastructure and platform services
• Rebuild and configure networking, RBAC, identity, Key Vault, and Private Endpoints in the target tenant
• Migrate Azure SQL Databases & Managed Instances with minimal downtime
• Re-platform Storage Accounts and Private Endpoint configurations
• Coordinate cutovers with stakeholders and produce detailed runbooks and validation documentation
• Support BAU Azure infrastructure activities where required

Key Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience with Azure tenant-to-tenant migrations (essential)
• Proven expertise using Azure Migrate (discovery, assessment & execution)
• Deep knowledge of Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, DNS, hybrid connectivity)
• Experience migrating Azure SQL (DB & MI) using DMS, replication, or backup/restore approaches
• Infrastructure background across Windows & Linux VMs
• Experience with Entra ID, RBAC, and Key Vault configuration
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform / Bicep / ARM)
• Scripting with Azure CLI / PowerShell

Desirable

• Experience with tools such as Dr Migrate / Movere
• Exposure to PaaS migrations (App Services, Functions, API Management)
• Relevant Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, etc.)

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.