Azure Migration Specialist

We're looking for an Azure Migration Specialist, ideally on a 6 month FTC (up to £95K), but contract considered £300-500 a day

Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck.

The role is based in Lancashire, with some UK travel possible. How often the role is office based is determined by location.

As Azure Migration Specialist, you'll:

• Lead end-to-end migration projects: assessing on-premises/multi-cloud environments and planning migrations to Microsoft Azure.
• Define migration strategies (lift-&-shift, re-platform, refactor) and deliver Azure landing zones, governance, security and network design.
• Collaborate with solution architects, application owners and operations teams to ensure high-availability, scalability & cost-efficiency.
• Drive automated migration pipelines (ARM/Bicep/Terraform), CI/CD in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Monitor, optimise and hand-over migrated workloads with operational runbooks.
• Provide thought leadership: share best practice, mentor junior engineers and help shape the Azure practice.

Who we're looking for:

• Proven experience migrating enterprise workloads into Azure (≥ 3-5 years) with strong Azure architecture skills.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services (VMs, Azure SQL/Managed Instance, App Services, AKS, Azure Networking, Identity) and best practices around security, governance and cost-management.
• Hands-on experience with PowerShell, Terraform/ARM/Bicep), CI/CD pipelines and automation of migration tasks.
• Solid understanding of networking (VNets, ExpressRoute, VPN), hybrid connectivity and cloud infrastructure patterns.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to translate technical concepts into business value and to cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-haves:

• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Azure Migration & Modernisation Specialty (AZ-700/AZ-500 optional)
• Experience with Windows/Linux server migration, SQL database migration, or application modernization.
• Familiarity with DevOps pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Prior experience delivering short-term or consultancy-based migration projects