Azure Cloud Engineer - VMware Migration

MMD Services is recruiting a Cloud Engineer on behalf of a long-standing client, a nationally recognized, employee-owned food distribution company headquartered in the western Chicago suburbs. They supply natural, organic, specialty, and fresh products to grocery retailers across North America from a network of distribution centers, and they run the technology estate that keeps that network moving.

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The infrastructure team is migrating its on-premises VMware estate into Azure. This role does the migration and then stays to run what it built.

The migration. Move on-premises VMware workloads into Azure, start to finish.

• Assess the existing estate and size workloads for their Azure destination
• Plan migration waves and decide what moves when
• Execute cutovers using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and automation you write
• Handle the workloads that do not move cleanly
• Decommission on-premises infrastructure once waves are complete

The operations. Support the Azure and AWS environments day to day.

• Own Azure IaaS: VM sizing and rightsizing, availability zones, disk tiers, Azure Backup
• Provide operational support across AWS alongside Azure
• Tune performance and manage cost after workloads land
• Administer a mixed Windows Server and RHEL estate
• Build and maintain automation in Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell
• Participate in production support and incident response

What you bring

• Hands-on vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter administration at enterprise scale. Cluster work, capacity management, and datastore work, not a line in a skills list.
• Azure IaaS fluency. VM sizing, availability design, disk tiers, and Azure Backup.
• Real AWS experience. This is a dual-cloud environment and you will support both, so AWS cannot be a resume mention.
• Both Windows Server and Linux or RHEL administration.
• Automation with Ansible, Terraform, or PowerShell.
• At least one end-to-end migration you personally worked, from assessment through cutover and decommissioning.

Nice to have

• Named migration tooling on your resume: Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Ansible Tower
• Post-cutover work such as performance tuning, cost optimization, or a rollback you owned
• On-call rotation and incident ownership in a production environment
• Certification across both clouds, for example AZ-104 or AZ-305 paired with an AWS Associate credential
• Experience at an organization currently working through a VMware licensing driven migration

MMD Services Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. xhyhwjd All applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, physical/mental disability, medical condition, military/veteran status, genetic information, marital status, ethnicity, alienage, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.