Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Leader

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Leader – Slalom

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As a modern technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have a passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies.

• Practice leadership & strategy:
  Define the Azure Infra & Security vision, multiyear roadmap, and operating model; create differentiated offerings/accelerators (e.g., enterprise scale landing zones, hybrid connectivity, identity & access, cloud governance, Sec Ops/MDR, platform SRE, cost optimization/Fin Ops).
• Delivery leadership (executive):
  Serve as Delivery Lead/Engagement Lead on strategic programs; run steering governance, risk/issue management, and change control; ensure outcomes are realized (velocity, risk reduction, adoption/consumption, TCO).
• Solution & advisory:
  Guide reference architectures for landing zones, network/edge, identity, secrets & key management, observability, backup/DR, compliance automation; champion Zero Trust and secure by design across VMs, containers/AKS, and data plane protections.
• GTM & alliances:
  Partner with Sales and Microsoft to shape demand, qualify/solution pursuits, estimate and author SOWs, and drive co‑sell/funding motions and designations.
• People leadership:
  Build, mentor, and retain a diverse team of Practice Leads, Architects, and Engineers; grow certifications and communities of practice; create clear career paths and a culture of psychological safety and excellence.
• Engineering excellence & governance:
  Establish standards aligned to Azure Well Architected; drive IaC (Terraform/Bicep), policy‑as‑code, CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , and production grade runbooks; lead postmortems and continuous improvement.
• Zero Legacy & Azure Migration and Modernization (AMM) leadership:
  Own and scale Slalom’s Zero Legacy initiative and Azure Migration & Modernization motion: establish a migration factory operating model; lead portfolio discovery/assessment and segmentation (6
  
  Rs); build business cases and landing‑zone‑first pathways; create wave plans and cutover playbooks; standardize tooling (Azure Migrate, Site Recovery/ASR, Database Migration Service/DMS, Arc, AVS/AVD); drive modernization patterns (containers/AKS, PaaS, serverless) and decommission plans; partner with Data & AI and App Innovation to accelerate value; track consumption/adoption and cost baselines with Fin Ops.
• M&A integration & separation:
  Lead identity, device, server, infrastructure, and business application migrations for acquisitions/divestitures, including tenant‑to‑tenant (Microsoft Entra /Azure AD, Exchange/SharePoint/Teams), domain/DNS and email address consolidation, network integration (vWAN/Express Route), endpoint management (Intune/MECM), server/data migration, coexistence and cutover planning, TSA management, and regulatory/compliance alignment (SOX, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR).

• 10+ years leading cloud infrastructure and/or security programs; 5+ years in consulting/services leadership with P&L responsibility.
• Proven record directing enterprise Azure transformations (landing zones, hybrid network/identity, modernization, Sec Ops) with measurable business outcomes.
• Executive presence with C‑suite stakeholders; strong negotiation, storytelling, and change leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership of Zero Legacy or equivalent legacy‑remediation initiatives and Azure migration/modernization programs at enterprise scale, including migration factory design, wave planning, coexistence strategies, and post‑cutover stabilization/SRE; hands‑on familiarity with Azure Migrate, ASR, DMS, Arc, AVS/AVD, AKS, and refactor/replatform patterns.
• Hands‑on leadership across M&A integrations and separations with Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 planning; executed tenant‑to‑tenant migrations (Entra /Azure AD), domain/email changes, device/workstation migrations, server/infrastructure…