Senior Azure Management & Migration Engineer (Azure Cloud Operations & Modernization)

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Location - Pan India
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Shift - 24/7 willing to work

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Management & Migration
Job Title
Senior Azure Management & Migration Engineer (Azure Cloud Operations & Modernization)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Management & Migration Engineer with 5 years of experience in Microsoft Azure cloud technologies specializing in Azure Backup & Recovery Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Azure Advisor Azure Migrate Governance and Cloud Modernization Services. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing administering automating and optimizing Azure environments while ensuring high availability disaster recovery readiness security compliance and seamless migration of enterprise workloads to Azure.
The engineer will act as a technical SME for Azure management services driving operational excellence cloud governance business continuity migration strategies and continuous service improvement initiatives for global enterprise customers.

Areas of responsibility

Key Responsibilities
Azure Backup & Recovery Services
Design implement and manage Azure Backup solutions using Recovery Services Vaults.
Configure backup policies for VMs SQL SAP HANA Azure Files and PaaS workloads.
Perform backup monitoring restore validation and recovery testing.
Implement ransomware protection backup immutability and retention management strategies.
Analyze recovery trends and optimize backup costs through lifecycle management.
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) & Disaster Recovery
Design and maintain enterprise DR solutions using Azure Site Recovery.
Configure replication failover failback and recovery plans for mission-critical workloads.
Conduct DR drills and business continuity validation exercises.
Optimize RPO/RTO objectives aligned with customer business requirements.
Automate recovery workflows using Azure Automation and Runbooks.
Azure Migration & Modernization
Lead migration initiatives using Azure Migrate.
Perform discovery dependency mapping and workload assessments.
Execute Rehost Replatform and Modernization strategies.
Support datacenter exits and cloud transformation programs.
Migrate workloads across Azure regions and hybrid cloud environments.
Perform tenant-to-tenant and subscription migrations.
Azure Resource Manager & Infrastructure as Code
Develop and maintain ARM Templates Bicep templates and IaC deployments.
Standardize Azure resource provisioning through automation.
Create reusable templates for networking storage compute monitoring and security resources.
Implement CI/CD deployment pipelines integrated with Azure DevOps.
Azure Governance & Advisory Services
Utilize Azure Advisor recommendations to improve performance security reliability and cost efficiency.
Implement Azure Policy RBAC Resource Locks Management Groups and Landing Zones.
Drive governance compliance and operational best practices.
Conduct cost optimization and cloud health assessments.
Monitoring & Operational Excellence
Manage monitoring solutions using:
o Azure Monitor
o Log Analytics
o Application Insights
o Azure Service Health
o Resource Health
Perform proactive capacity planning and service optimization.
Lead incident management root cause analysis and problem management activities.
Ensure adherence to SLAs OLAs and compliance standards.

Critical Azure Technologies & Services
Core Services
Azure Backup
Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Azure Advisor
Azure Migrate
Recovery Services Vault
Azure Automation
Governance & Security
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
Azure RBAC
Azure Policy
Azure Blueprints
Azure Key Vault
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Azure Security Center
Monitoring & Operations
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics

Application Insights
Azure Resource Graph
Azure Service Health
Migration & Hybrid Cloud
Azure Arc
Azure Landing Zones
Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
ExpressRoute
VPN Gateway
Storage Migration Services
Automation & DevOps
ARM Templates
Bicep
PowerShell
Azure CLI
Azure DevOps Pipelines
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Storage & Recovery
Azure Storage Accounts
Azure Files
Blob Storage
Managed Disks
Snapshot Management
Backup Center

Required Technical Skills
Must Have
5 years of Azure administration and cloud operations experience.
Strong expertise in Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery.
Hands-on experience with Azure Site Recovery implementation and DR testing.
Experience with Azure Migrate assessments and migrations.
Expertise in ARM Templates Bicep and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong knowledge of Azure governance and resource lifecycle management.
Experience with PowerShell and Azure CLI automation.
Deep understanding of Azure networking and hybrid connectivity.
Preferred Skills
Terraform
Azure Arc
FinOps / Cost Optimization
Azure Landing Zones
Kubernetes / AKS exposure
Azure VMware Solution
SRE and Observability concepts
Security & Compliance Frameworks

Stakeholder Collaboration-Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand requirements support development activities check system compatibility and ensure solutions meet expected standards.