Position: Cloud Infrastructure & Migration SME/Tech Lead (L3) | Total IT Experience: 8-12 Years

Relevant Cloud Experience: 6+ Years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced Cloud Infrastructure & Migration SME (L3) to design, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments. The candidate will serve as the primary SME responsible for cloud transformation, datacentre migration, infrastructure modernization, governance, security, and operational excellence across cloud and on-premises platforms.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies along with exposure to other public cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, migration strategies, landing zone implementation, security frameworks, hybrid networking, disaster recovery, and automation. The role requires strong experience in assessing on-premises infrastructure and applications, planning migration and modernization initiatives, and delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions across business-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments, primarily focused on Microsoft Azure with exposure to AWS.
- Design and implement Landing Zones, cloud governance frameworks, management hierarchies, security controls, compliance standards, and operational guardrails.
- Lead enterprise storage transformation initiatives including Azure Storage services, data lifecycle management, and large-scale NAS-to-Blob/File Share migration programs.
- Lead cloud transformation and datacentre migration initiatives, including discovery, assessments, dependency mapping, migration planning, P2V, Virtual-to-Cloud and On-Premises-to-Cloud migrations, validation, cutover, and stabilization.
- Design and implement enterprise security and identity controls covering Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, identity governance, Zero Trust principles, security hardening, and compliance requirements.
- Design and support cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, network segmentation, private connectivity, DNS, routing, and secure access architectures.
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure platforms including compute, backup, disaster recovery,



business continuity, high availability, and performance optimization to ensure operational resilience.
- Enable and support Azure database PaaS implementations, including migration readiness, Private Endpoint connectivity, security, and operational handover to database teams.
- Design, automate, and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), cloud automation, and DevOps best practices using Terraform, PowerShell, and Azure-native tooling.
- Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, capacity planning, and operational reporting capabilities to maintain infrastructure health, service reliability, and operational excellence.
- Provide L3 support, lead major incident resolution and RCAs, and drive continuous service improvement initiatives across cloud and infrastructure platforms.
- Collaborate with application, database, infrastructure, networking, security, and cloud teams to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, migration runbooks, standards, operational procedures, governance artefacts, and infrastructure readiness assessments.

Experience and Qualification Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8-12 years of IT experience, including 6+ years of hands-on Cloud Infrastructure and Migration experience, primarily within Microsoft Azure environments.
- Proven experience leading cloud transformation, datacentre migration, infrastructure modernization, and cloud adoption programs across enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure, cloud architecture, Landing Zones, governance, security, networking, identity management, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
- Experience performing application and infrastructure assessments, dependency mapping, workload rationalization,



and migration planning for cloud transformation initiatives.
- Strong experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, virtualization platforms, hybrid infrastructure, and cloud operations.
- Experience delivering P2V, Virtual-to-Cloud, and On-Premises-to-Cloud migrations, including migration validation, cutover planning, and operational stabilization.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates), cloud automation, and operational tooling.
- Experience supporting Azure SQL services, cloud storage platforms, hybrid connectivity, monitoring, backup, and resilience frameworks.
- Exposure to AWS or other public cloud platforms and hybrid/multi-cloud environments is desirable.
- Experience working within managed services, cloud operations, or large-scale transformation programs, with strong stakeholder management, troubleshooting, and technical leadership capabilities.

Required Skills & Certifications

- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) – Mandatory
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) - mandatory
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Preferred
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate - Optional

Key Competencies

- Strong system integration, analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to manage business-critical production environments
- Leadership and mentoring capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proactive approach toward automation and continuous improvement

Work/ Roaster Requirement:

- Willingness to work in UK / US aligned shifts based on project requirements.
- Participation in on-call support and major incident response activities.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced managed services setting.

Ideal Candidate Profile

A hands-on Cloud Infrastructure & Migration SME with expertise in cloud transformation, datacentre migration, hybrid infrastructure, governance, security, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud infrastructure knowledge with strong migration and modernization experience to deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise cloud solutions.

Skills:- Azure, enterprise security and Data center migration

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