Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer with AVD Experience
Location: India - Remote
Position 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.