Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities - Lead application modernization and migration initiatives from on-premises environments to Azure PaaS .
- Analyze existing application architecture, dependencies, integrations, infrastructure, and database connectivity.
- Design and implement application hosting solutions using Azure services such as:
- Azure App Service
- Azure Functions
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Instances (ACI)
- Assess and optimize application hosting configurations and performance across Azure PaaS services.
- Define Azure target-state architecture based on customer infrastructure and application landscapes.
- Contribute to Azure Landing Zone design and cloud adoption strategies.
- Develop architectural diagrams, solution designs, UML diagrams, and technical presentations.
- Containerize web applications, front-end applications, and web services and deploy them on Kubernetes/AKS.
- Perform application performance assessments before and after migration.
- Evaluate migration scenarios and recommend appropriate migration pathways based on application requirements.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Data Platform, DevOps, Integration, Infrastructure, and Project Management teams.
- Ensure solutions align with Azure best practices, business requirements, infrastructure considerations, stakeholder expectations, and value-for-money objectives.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development and migration teams.
- Lead teams of 5+ members and provide hands-on technical direction.
- Troubleshoot application and hosting issues across Azure PaaS environments.
- Support multiple projects simultaneously, approximately 10–12 projects in parallel .
- Participate in customer discussions, solution workshops, technical reviews, and migration planning.
- Provide migration support during weekends when required.
- Work across customer-aligned time zones as needed.
Required Technical Skills
- 12+ years of application development and application modernization experience.
- Strong hands-on web application development experience.
- Experience developing, configuring, and hosting applications on IIS .
- Strong hands-on experience hosting web applications on Azure PaaS .
- Experience migrating and modernizing applications to Azure.
- Strong understanding of Azure application hosting and configuration optimization.
- Experience with Azure App Service, Azure Functions, AKS, and Azure Container Instances.
- Strong understanding of application architecture, dependencies, integrations, and migration pathways.
- Experience with application containerization and Kubernetes.
- Experience hosting containerized applications on AKS .
- Understanding of database connectivity, configuration, and application-to-database integration.
- Experience with application performance assessment and optimization before and after migration.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
- Strong software engineering and solution design experience.
- Experience creating architectural diagrams and UML diagrams .
- Experience with application migration scenarios and methodologies.
Job Tags
Contract work, Weekend work