Azure Cloud Migration Engineer

Location: Sunderland (3 days per week onsite - days may vary) Duration: 3-Month Initial Contract Rate: £tbc on application/day inside IR35 We're looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Migration Engineer / Azure…

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Contract type Contract
Posted 28 September 2026

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About this contract

Location: Sunderland (3 days per week onsite - days may vary)

Duration: 3-Month Initial Contract

Rate: £tbc on application/day inside IR35

We're looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Migration Engineer / Azure Migration Engineer to support a major data centre exit and cloud transformation programme.

This is a hands-on contract role focused on migrating on-premise infrastructure, servers and applications into Microsoft Azure. The Azure Cloud Migration Engineer will join a team responsible for delivering critical migration activities, building Azure infrastructure, supporting landing zones, and ensuring operational resilience throughout the migration journey.

The programme includes workload migration, cloud platform engineering, infrastructure modernisation and remediation of security vulnerabilities identified across the estate.

This opportunity would suit an Azure Cloud Migration Engineer / Azure Migration Engineer who has delivered large-scale Azure migration programmes and is comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, datacentre services, networking and operational support.

The Role

As an Azure Cloud Migration Engineer / Azure Migration Engineer, you will:

Support the migration of datacentre-hosted workloads into Microsoft Azure
Assist with migration planning, testing and production cutovers
Create and execute migration runbooks
Build and support Azure Landing Zones
Support server and application migration activities
Configure and maintain Azure infrastructure and networking
Work closely with suppliers, project teams and technical stakeholders
Remediate security vulnerabilities across infrastructure platforms
Provide operational support across both cloud and datacentre environments
Support patching, monitoring, incident management and platform maintenance activities

Essential Experience

Proven experience delivering Azure cloud migration projects
Migration of on-premise servers and applications into Azure
Azure infrastructure engineering and administration
Azure Landing Zone deployment and configuration
Strong Azure networking knowledge
PowerShell automation and scripting
Windows Server administration
Active Directory and/or Entra ID
Experience producing migration runbooks and cutover documentation
Experience supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure environments

If you're an Azure Cloud Migration Engineer, Azure Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Azure Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Azure Migration Consultant with proven experience delivering Azure migration programmes, we'd love to hear from you.

Azure Cloud Migration Engineer / Azure Migration Engineer

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