Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sales Search Partners is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Migration Architect for a remote contract role supporting a large-scale data center migration to Microsoft Azure within a healthcare environment. The role will design Azure infrastructure, lead migration waves and production cutovers, and oversee post-migration stabilization, governance, security, and disaster recovery requirements.
Responsibilities
- Own Azure Landing Zone architecture, networking, security, governance, and RBAC
- Build and maintain Bicep/ARM infrastructure-as-code
- Lead technical discovery and application migration planning
- Manage Azure Migrate, replication, and test failovers
- Create and lead detailed cutover and rollback plans
- Lead production migration/cutover events and technical teams
- Validate DNS, certificates, firewall rules, load balancing, and SQL migrations
- Ensure workloads meet BCDR, backup, and DR requirements
- Partner with QA, application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams
- Support CAB/architecture review processes and lead post-wave retrospectives
Skills
- Strong Azure architecture and hands-on migration experience
- Experience with Azure Migrate, Bicep/ARM, Azure networking, and landing zones
- Experience leading data center/cloud migrations and production cutovers
- Strong understanding of security, governance, RBAC, DNS, networking, and DR
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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