Azure Infrastructure & Migration Engineer

Job Title: Azure Infrastructure and Migration Engineer
Day Rate: £375 per day - Outside IR35
Location: Fully remote / WFH
Duration: 4 months initially
Start date: ASAP

Role
We are assisting a client who have a project-based requirement for a hands-on Azure Infrastructure & Migration Engineer. Working in a small team, you'll be involved in the build, migration and support of infrastructure across IT and operational technology environments.

As Azure Infrastructure & Migration Engineer, you'll own assigned workloads from discovery through to cutover, testing and handover, following approved designs and maintaining continuity at sites. The project scope includes infrastructure supporting ERP, other on-premises server workloads, legacy Azure environments and day-to-day operational support.

Responsibilities

• Discover workloads and map network, application, licensing and IT dependencies with application owners and site teams.
• Build and configure Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, access controls and monitoring in line with approved designs.
• Migrate VMware and Hyper-V workloads to Azure and move workloads between Azure subscriptions or regions.
• Support ERP migrations with application partners and migrate core infrastructure services where required.
• Plan and execute approved cutovers, including prerequisites, testing and rollback. Coordinate business acceptance, stabilisation and approved legacy decommissioning. Troubleshoot Azure and on-premises incidents.
• Work with backup, network and disaster recovery teams to validate Rubrik protection, restore readiness and connectivity before cutover.
• Keep migration trackers, change records, ITSM inventory and runbooks current. Escalate blockers and design queries with technical leadership and hand over outstanding actions.

Essential experience

• Hands-on Azure infrastructure engineering and production server migration experience - build, migrate, test and support workloads.
• Practical experience with Azure compute, disks, storage, role-based access control and monitoring, plus Azure networking across virtual networks, routing, network security groups, Azure Firewall, private endpoints and DNS.
• Strong Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, DNS and DHCP skills, with VMware or Hyper-V experience and hybrid infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Experience using Azure Migrate on a live migration, including discovery, replication, test migrations and cutover. Practical PowerShell or Azure CLI skills.
• Experience of supporting IT infrastructure, with an understanding of production continuity, site constraints and formal change control.
• Ability to own assigned work, follow up with client teams and suppliers, maintain accurate documentation and raise delivery risks early.

Desirable experience

• Hands-on Rubrik backup and recovery experience, including validating protection and restore readiness.
• JD Edwards ERP, Veeam-assisted Azure migrations or Commvault decommissioning.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment.
• Azure Virtual Desktop, Linux, SQL Server or Oracle infrastructure, or certificate and licensing services.
• Bicep or Terraform, ServiceNow and operational handover.