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 multilocation and hybrid distributed workloads. This person will assist, primarily, with onprem to Azure migration activities including environment analysis, system builds, file migrations, and other cutover activities.

Key Responsibilities

Mandatory Skills

• Nerdio or Azure File Sync experience

Soft responsibilities

• Adhere to cloud engineering standards like Microsoft WellArchitected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
• Follow established standards for 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.

Required Skills

• Certifications:
• AZ104: Azure Administrator Associate
• AZ140: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
• Experience managing largescale Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments (500+ users).
• Experience migrating workloads from onprem 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.

Preferred Skills

• Experience utilizing Azure File Sync (Storage Sync Services) and Robocopy.
• Experience working with configuration tools: Ansible and PowerShell.
• Nerdio Certifications (NME100, NME200).
• Familiarity with the Microsoft WellArchitected Framework for enterprise landing zone deployments.
• Experience working in a team setting using Agile methodologies.

Other Details

• Duration: 4 months
• Location: Remote
• Timings: Full Time (As per company timings)
• Notice Period: (Immediate Joiner Only)
• Experience: 10+ Years

Notes: Communication should be top notch.