Azure DevOps Migration Lead
About The Position
The Azure DevOps Migration Lead serves as the day-to-day delivery lead and primary client-facing technical resource for an enterprise Azure DevOps organization and tenant migration initiative. This role is responsible for leading current-state discovery, establishing the target-state identity and governance operating model, developing end-to-end migration runbooks, and directing technical teams through rehearsal and production cutover. The Migration Lead also provides technical oversight for implementation engineers while ensuring structured cross-party stakeholder alignment.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of experience in DevOps engineering, cloud infrastructure, and technical project leadership.
- 4 or more years of hands-on experience administering and configuring Azure DevOps Services.
- Proven track record planning and executing complex Azure DevOps organization, project, tenant, or identity migrations.
- Deep technical knowledge of Azure Repos, YAML pipelines, self-hosted agent pools, service connections, and secure files.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, including user/group RBAC, service principals, and modern authentication protocols.
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps REST APIs, Azure CLI, PowerShell, or equivalent scripting tools for discovery and automation.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating technical workshops, managing client expectations, and translating business requirements into migration strategies.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing enterprise tenant separations, divestitures, or corporate acquisitions.
- Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory integration and MATLAB / Simulink build toolchains.
- Experience supporting embedded software engineering build environments and pipelines.
- Background in professional services, management consulting, or technical advisory delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead current-state discovery and comprehensive inventory validation across projects, repositories, and build pipelines.
- Confirm and establish the supported Azure DevOps organization and Microsoft Entra ID tenant transition strategy.
- Define the target-state identity, access management, platform administration, and operating model.
- Lead technical assessments of Azure Repos, multi-stage YAML pipelines, self-hosted build agents, extensions, and external dependencies.
- Develop comprehensive migration artifacts, including detailed runbooks, testing strategies, cutover checklists, and rollback plans.
- Lead migration rehearsals, technical readiness reviews, go/no-go decision gates, and production cutover execution.
- Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, and client action items.
- Provide direct technical guidance, task allocation, and quality review for hands-on Azure DevOps implementation engineers.
- Serve as the primary technical liaison across multi-party client stakeholders, engineering leads, and external partners.
- Facilitate technical workshops and discovery sessions to translate technical findings into actionable execution plans.
- Produce executive-ready status reports, technical architecture documentation, and post-cutover stabilization summaries.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
