Azure Cloud Engineer with AVD experience

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.