Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Position Overview
We are looking for a seasoned, independent DevOps Engineer to lead the infrastructure migration of our core platform from AWS to Microsoft Azure. This is a fast-paced, up to 6-month contract. You will have full ownership of the migration strategy, automation setup, and final handoff. We need someone who has executed cloud-to-cloud migrations before, understands the typical architectural pitfalls, and can jump straight into the project without needing a ramp-up period. Our goal is a secure, stable, scalable, and cost-efficient Azure environment built to modern engineering standards.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a seasoned, independent DevOps Engineer to lead the infrastructure migration of our core platform from AWS to Microsoft Azure. This is a fast-paced, up to 6-month contract. You will have full ownership of the migration strategy, automation setup, and final handoff. We need someone who has executed cloud-to-cloud migrations before, understands the typical architectural pitfalls, and can jump straight into the project without needing a ramp-up period. Our goal is a secure, stable, scalable, and cost-efficient Azure environment built to modern engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Map our existing AWS footprint (EKS, S3, SQS, Cognito, Lambda, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch) and design a practical migration path to Azure, including cutover and rollback plans.
- Migrate our workloads from EKS to AKS and move storage, databases, messaging and serverless components to their Azure equivalents with minimal downtime.
- Write clean, reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep) so environments are easy to spin up and maintain.
- Refactor and optimize CI/CD pipelines so applications ship reliably into Azure.
- Build with a security-first approach: network isolation, secret management (Azure Key Vault) and access control via Entra ID.
- Set up monitoring, alerting and cost controls before go-live.
- Work closely with our Java developers, who handle application-level changes, on deployment and troubleshooting.
- Create practical documentation and run a structured walkthrough with our internal team before wrapping up.
- Provide regular progress updates to stakeholders on migration milestones and architectural roadblocks.
- Proven experience migrating live production workloads from AWS to Azure with minimal downtime.
- Kubernetes: EKS to AKS migration, Helm, ingress, autoscaling (HPA, KEDA), GitOps (Argo CD or Flux), ACR.
- Data: S3 to Azure Blob Storage; MongoDB to Cosmos DB for MongoDB (or Atlas on Azure); PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, with live replication and cutover.
- Messaging and serverless: SQS to Azure Service Bus; Lambda to Azure Functions.
- Identity: Cognito to Microsoft Entra ID / Entra External ID, including user migration and OIDC flow changes.
- Advanced IaC with Terraform or Bicep (modules, remote state, policy-as-code) integrated into CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
- Security: hub-and-spoke networking, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Managed Identities, least-privilege RBAC, Defender for Cloud.
- Observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
- Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python, plus Azure CLI.
- Active Azure certification such as AZ-305 or AZ-400 (AZ-104, AZ-500, CKA/CKAD are an asset).
- Cloud Adoption Framework / landing zone setup.
- Azure Migrate or similar assessment tooling.
- Experience with Cosmos DB RU sizing and MongoDB API compatibility.
- Experience with regulated environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA).
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Responsibilities
Lead the migration of production workloads from AWS to Azure, including infrastructure, Kubernetes, storage, databases, messaging, serverless components, identity, and CI/CD, with minimal downtime. Establish secure and cost-efficient Azure infrastructure, monitoring, and documentation, and coordinate deployment work and handoff with developers and stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires proven experience migrating live production workloads from AWS to Azure, including EKS-to-AKS, data, messaging, serverless, and identity migrations. Candidates should have advanced Terraform or Bicep skills, Azure security and observability expertise, scripting ability, and an active Azure certification; experience with landing zones, assessment tools, regulated environments, and Cosmos DB is an asset.
Skills
- AWS-to-Azure Migration
- Kubernetes
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Terraform
- Bicep
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Azure Networking
- Cloud Security
- Azure Identity Management
- Database Migration
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Functions
- Azure Monitoring
- Python
- PowerShell
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- EKS
- AKS
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- GitOps
- Argo CD
- Flux
- Terraform
- Bicep
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Blob Storage
- Cosmos DB
- PostgreSQL
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Functions
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Key Vault
- Managed Identities
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Application Insights
- Python
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI
- AZ-305
- AZ-400
- Cloud Adoption Framework