Azure Cloud Engineer with AVD experience

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer with AVD ExperienceLocation: India - RemotePosition Overview Infrastructure and AVD Contractor will be responsible for providing general Azure and VDI support through M&A activities. They must have experience managing enterprise environments – including multi-location and hybrid distributed workloads. This person will assist, primarily, with on-prem to Azure migration activities including environment analysis, system builds, file migrations, and other cutover activities. Responsibilities: • Adhere to cloud engineering standards like Microsoft Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). • Follow established standards for Azure Virtual Desktop deployments. • Strategize with project managers, application teams and stakeholders to develop project requirements and timelines. • Coordinate with internal teams to migrate file services. • Coordinate with internal teams to procure resources like servers, quota, security groups, etc. as needed. • Partner with other contractors for DBA project needs. • Partner with other contractors for AVD transition of support. Technical responsibilities: • File server migration analysis. • File server migration execution (Azure File Sync + Robocopy) • Create new AVD images, partnering with app owners on app installations. • Create new AVD pools with proper configurations; like autoscaling. (Nerdio) • Assign security groups to deliver line of business applications to proper personnel. • Execute cutover steps for file and AVD resources during maintenance windows - generally nights and weekends. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required: • Certifications: o AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate o AZ-140: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty • Experience managing large-scale Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments (500+ users). • Experience migrating workloads from on-prem to Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings. • Familiarity with Entra ID, Active Directory for security provisioning. • Foundational knowledge from working in Azure networking environments (VNETs, subnets, NSGs, etc.) • Experience managing Azure Backups and Azure Compute Galleries for AVD image management. • Ability to work frequent nights and weekends for cutover activities. Nice to have: • Experience utilizing Azure File Sync (Storage Sync Services) and Robocopy. • Experience working with configuration tools: Ansible and PowerShell. • Nerdio Certifications (NME-100, NME-200) • Familiarity with the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework for enterprise landing zone deployments. • Experience working in a team setting using Agile methodologies.

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