Azure Migration Specialist - Remote

Azure Migration Specialist - Remote
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

Match Profiler is an Information Systems consultant who has been working in the national and international market since 1999. We have multidisciplinary skills and IT
- how that allow us to contribute, optimize and progress with our clients. We are currently recruiting, for integration in our internal team/client, professionals with the following profile:

Azure Migration Specialist - Remote

Hard skills

We are seeking an Azure Migration Specialist to lead or participate in projects migrating infrastructure, applications, and data from
- premises (or hybrid) environments to Microsoft Azure. The successful candidate will ensure that migrations are executed with minimal interruptions, meeting timelines, budgets, security standards, and cloud best practices.

Requirements:

• Proven experience with Azure: VMs, Azure SQL / Managed Instances, Azure Storage, Virtual Networks (VNet), NSGs, Express
  Route / VPN, Azure AD / identity services.
• Experience with Azure migration tools: Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Database Migration Service.
• Solid cloud networking, security, governance, and compliance knowledge.
• Proficiency in automation / Ia
  C: Terraform, ARM, Bicep, Power
  Shell, Azure CLI.
• Ability to diagnose infrastructure, performance, interdependencies, and
  - related issues.
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, and high availability (HA) solutions.
• Experience in development using at least one of the following frameworks:. NET.
• Language skills (written and spoken): Portuguese, English (mandatory).

Nice-to-have:

• Azure certifications such as AZ-104 (Administrator), AZ-305 (Architect), or equivalent.
• Previous experience migrating physical servers, VMs, or containers to Azure.
• Experience working with hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud).
• Familiarity with agile methodologies or project management frameworks (e. G. Scrum, Kanban).
• Strong communication skills to present results, risks, plans, and technical decisions to
  - technical stakeholders.
• Experience with
  - migration monitoring (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights).

Responsibilities:

• Assess the current environment (on-prem infrastructure, servers, applications, dependencies, network, storage, databases) to define the migration plan.
• Perform discovery and dependency analysis across applications, services, and data.
• Select the most appropriate migration strategy (lift & shift, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild).
• Design the target Azure architecture: networking, identity, security, virtual machines, storage, high availability, disaster recovery (DR).
• Use Microsoft migration tools (e. G. Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Database Migration Service) or
  - party tools.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (Ia
  C) for provisioning (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, Power
  Shell / Azure CLI scripts).
• Plan and execute migration tests / pilot runs to validate functionality prior to full cutover.
• Manage
  - over, data migration, synchronization, and minimize downtime.
• Post-migration: monitor performance, optimize cost, ensure security, compliance, and make necessary adjustments.
• Document every stage of the project, prepare runbooks / playbooks / rollback plans.
• Coordinate with
  - functional teams (infrastructure, networking, security, applications, business) and manage project stakeholders.

Soft skills

• Good communication
• Team spirit
• Proactivity
• Time management

What we can offer

• Personalized support from your team
• Your manager will take into consideration your motivations and suggestions
• Victories will be celebrated together
• Your HR and Support Teams will always be available to help
• Constant feedback on your work
• A network of hundreds of partnerships with companies from numerous sectors that offer you exclusive discounts (health,
  - being, travel, gastronomy, culture, leisure, training, etc)
• And, of course, many gatherings and social events