[Hiring] Azure Stack Hub & Azure Stack Edge Migration Architect @DMS Vision

Role Description

Azure Stack Hub & Azure Stack Edge Migration Architect

Location: 100% Remote

Contract: 12+ Months Contract

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:
    • 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ Years' Experience

Requirements

• Technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub (ASH) and Azure Stack Edge (ASE) to Azure and Azure Local.
• Experience in assessing customer environments and determining optimal migration patterns.
• Ability to provide inputs to design and team migration approaches.
• Experience leading technical discovery workshops.
• Ability to validate migration methodologies.

Benefits

• 100% Remote Work
• 12+ Months Contract