Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge

Role: Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge Location: USA Remote Only W2 Candidates Job Description 10+ Years Experience

Technical Focus (70%)

Migration Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub (ASH) and Azure Stack Edge (ASE) to Azure and Azure Local.
• Assess customer environments and determine optimal migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, and technical readiness.
• Provide inputs to design, team migration approaches covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery considerations.
• Lead technical discovery workshops to identify migration risks, unsupported configurations, hardware constraints, and integration dependencies.
• Review and seek approval for migration runbooks, engineering procedures, rollback strategies, and operational readiness plans.
• Validate migration methodologies developed by Microsoft engineering teams and ensure field applicability.

Azure Infrastructure Engineering

• Provide deep technical guidance on:
• Azure Stack Hub infrastructure
• Azure Stack Edge deployments
• Azure Local architecture
• Azure Arc integration
• Hybrid cloud connectivity
• Azure networking
• Identity and access management
• Evaluate customer environments for migration readiness and recommend remediation activities.
• Guide engineers through complex troubleshooting scenarios involving hybrid infrastructure and edge environments.

Migration Automation & Tool Validation

• Review and validate migration scripts, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling produced by engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot PowerShell-based migration workflows and identify execution failures.
• Validate migration prerequisites, dependency checks, and operational controls.
• Ensure migration automation is repeatable, scalable, and production-ready.

Technical Escalation Management

• Act as Tier-3/Tier-4 technical escalation point for complex migration issues.
• Coordinate directly with Microsoft Product Engineering teams on defects, product limitations, and feature gaps.
• Lead root cause analysis activities for failed or delayed migrations.
• Develop mitigation and recovery plans for high-risk migration scenarios.

Documentation & Knowledge Engineering

• Own technical migration guidance and operational documentation.
• Review Microsoft Learn content for technical accuracy.
• Develop migration decision trees, troubleshooting guides, and technical best practices.
• Create reusable engineering artifacts to improve migration consistency across customers.

Customer & Stakeholder Focus (30%)

• Lead technical discussions with strategic and high-touch customers.
• Present migration architecture recommendations and technical roadmaps.
• Communicate migration risks, technical blockers, and remediation options.
• Conduct executive-level technical briefings.
• Support customer escalations and critical migration events.
• Partner with Microsoft Account Teams, CSA teams, Product Engineering, and Support organizations.

Skills: iam,azure stack edge (ase),o azure networking,azure stack hub (ash)