Senior DevOps Engineer — Azure Migration & Automation

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team on a large-scale application migration and modernization program for a major US enterprise organization.
The initiative focuses on migrating enterprise applications and infrastructure from VMware-based environments to Microsoft Azure, including both Azure-native services and Azure Local.
This is a hands-on engineering role combining Terraform, Azure DevOps, infrastructure engineering, application migration, networking, automation, and production cutover execution.
You will work as part of a small cross-functional delivery team alongside a Cloud Architect, QA / Test Automation Engineer, and Delivery Manager, collaborating directly with client platform, network, security, database, and application teams.

Project Overview

The program involves migrating a significant enterprise application and virtual machine estate from VMware-based infrastructure to Azure and Azure Local.
Rather than introducing a new DevOps platform, the team works within the client’s existing infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, security, networking, and operational standards.
The initiative focuses on:

• Infrastructure as Code: extending and using existing Terraform modules
• CI/CD Automation: enhancing Azure DevOps pipelines for provisioning, deployment, validation, and promotion
• Application Migration: migrating Windows and Linux workloads from VMware environments
• Azure & Azure Local: provisioning and configuring cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure
• Network Cutovers: executing firewall, IP, routing, load-balancer, and DNS changes
• Migration Automation: scripting repeatable migration, configuration, and validation activities
• Production Cutovers: executing migrations during controlled change windows
• Validation & Hypercare: validating migrated applications and supporting post-cutover stabilization

Technology Landscape

Primary Cloud: Microsoft Azure
Hybrid Cloud: Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI, Azure Arc
Source Platform: VMware vSphere / vSAN
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python
Networking: Azure VNet, NSG, routing, load balancers, private DNS, firewalls
Identity & Security: Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, Service Principals, Key Vault
Migration: Azure Migrate and comparable replication/migration tooling
Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux
Containers: AKS / Kubernetes
Secondary Cloud: AWS

Responsibilities

• Review and adopt the client’s existing Terraform modules, repositories, naming conventions, tagging standards, pipeline structure, and promotion processes.
• Extend existing Terraform modules rather than introducing parallel infrastructure tooling.
• Develop workload-specific Terraform configurations for Azure-native and Azure Local environments.
• Provision virtual machines, Arc-enabled VMs, networking, storage, images, identities, and related infrastructure.
• Maintain appropriate Terraform remote state, environment separation, and pull-request/code-review practices.
• Extend Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines with provisioning, deployment, validation, and environment-promotion stages.
• Support controlled promotion through development, test, QA, and production environments.
• Analyze discovery and assessment information and provide technical input into application disposition, sizing, dependencies, and migration planning.
• Validate application and infrastructure dependencies through configuration analysis and observation.
• Produce application-specific network specifications and firewall rule translations.
• Coordinate networking changes with enterprise network teams.
• Develop migration runbooks and detailed cutover procedures.
• Define and document rollback criteria.
• Build automated infrastructure and smoke-level validation covering VM availability, services, ports, connectivity, checksums, and application readiness.
• Execute the complete migration lifecycle for assigned applications.
• Build target infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code.
• Configure applications on target environments.
• Script and execute data and configuration migrations.
• Coordinate database migration activities with client database teams.
• Execute network, firewall, load-balancer, and DNS cutovers.
• Perform post-migration technical validation.
• Provide hypercare support following production migrations.
• Produce as-built documentation and migration/cutover records.
• Capture actual migration effort, technical lessons learned, and improvement opportunities.
• Continuously improve migration runbooks and automation based on completed waves.
• Work directly with client platform, network, security, database, and application teams.

Candidate Requirements

Must-have

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or related roles with production responsibility.
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience.
• Experience authoring and extending Terraform modules while following established client conventions.
• Strong understanding of Terraform state, remote backends, environment separation, providers, and code-review practices.
• Production experience provisioning Azure infrastructure through Terraform.
• Strong Azure DevOps experience.
• Hands-on experience with YAML pipelines and reusable pipeline templates.
• Experience with Azure DevOps environments, approvals, service connections, service principals, variables, artifacts, Git branching, and pull requests.
• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Experience with Azure VMs, VNets, NSGs, load balancers, private DNS, managed identities, service principals, Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.
• Hands-on experience migrating Windows Server and Linux workloads.
• Experience building target servers and configuring applications during migration.
• Experience scripting data and configuration migration activities.
• Experience with Azure Migrate or comparable VMware migration and replication tooling.
• Working knowledge of VMware vSphere sufficient to understand source VM, network, storage, and dependency configurations.
• Strong networking knowledge for production cutovers, including IP addressing, VLANs/subnets, firewall rules, routing, load balancing, and DNS.
• Strong PowerShell skills plus Bash or Python.
• Working knowledge of Oracle and/or SQL Server sufficient to coordinate migrations with database teams.
• Experience executing production cutovers under formal change control.
• Experience defining and applying rollback criteria.
• Experience performing post-cutover technical validation and troubleshooting.
• Experience working within an existing client-owned toolchain and engineering standards.
• Ability to produce clear migration runbooks, as-built documentation, and handover materials.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to collaborate directly with enterprise platform, network, security, database, and application teams.
• Ability to work effectively within distributed teams and communicate with US-based clients.
• Availability to maintain meaningful overlap with US business hours.
• Ability to support planned after-hours migration and cutover windows when required.

Nice-to-have

• Hands-on experience with Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI.
• Experience with Azure Arc-enabled servers and VMs, logical networks, images, and hybrid management.
• AWS experience, including EC2, VPC, IAM, AWS Application Migration Service, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• GitHub Actions experience.
• Experience with automated validation frameworks such as Pester or pytest.
• Ansible or similar configuration-management experience.
• AKS or Kubernetes experience.
• Experience containerizing existing applications.
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments such as utilities, energy, financial services, healthcare, or the public sector.
• Experience working with formal change-freeze and change-approval processes.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• AWS certifications.
• Experience transitioning automation and Infrastructure-as-Code assets to client platform teams for long-term ownership.

AI Engineering Mindset

We expect engineers to actively use modern AI-assisted development tools to increase productivity and improve delivery quality.
Practical experience using AI for Terraform development, scripting, pipeline development, troubleshooting, test generation, documentation, and code review is strongly preferred.
Candidates should be comfortable treating AI as part of the engineering workflow while retaining ownership of technical decisions, security, code quality, and production outcomes.

Development & Migration Practices

The engineering approach emphasizes:

• Infrastructure as Code
• Reusable Terraform modules
• Git-based development and pull-request reviews
• CI/CD-driven infrastructure deployment
• Automated infrastructure validation
• Repeatable migration runbooks
• Scripted migration and configuration activities
• Controlled environment promotion
• Production change management
• Explicit rollback criteria
• Post-migration smoke testing
• Hypercare and structured handover
• Continuous improvement based on migration-wave actuals

The priority is successful application migration. Automation should accelerate and standardize delivery without becoming an objective in itself. Where necessary, documented manual or semi-automated processes may be used while automation matures.

Engagement Model

You will work as part of a small cross-functional delivery team typically consisting of:

• Delivery Manager
• Cloud Architect
• DevOps Engineers
• QA / Test Automation Engineer

The engagement follows a fixed-scope, fixed-timeline delivery model, requiring strong technical ownership and the ability to deliver within established enterprise standards.
The role is remote, with working-hour overlap with US-based client teams.

Why Work With Us?

Our Culture

• Open communication and a focus on psychological safety
• Recognition of achievements and contributions
• Collaboration across multicultural and distributed teams
• Less bureaucracy, more focus on results
• Hands-on participation in complex enterprise cloud migrations
• Opportunity to work across infrastructure, automation, networking, and application migration

Hiring Process

1. Intro / Pre-screen Call
2. Technical Interview
3. Manager Interview
4. Pre-offer Stage + Reference Check (if requested)
5. Official Offer