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The original was posted on /r/azure by /u/purplepersonality on 2023-08-09 19:02:29.
Hi, I’m the sole IT admin of a small engineering company and the CEO wants everything to move to a cloud native Azure setup. This project requires everything from the domain services, network, fileserver, AVD, VMs, permissions and security to be set up from scratch. I also can’t just upload existing VM images and use those in a lift and shift kind of way because those systems are already set up horribly by my predecessor and starting fresh and cloud native is definitely required.
I’ve spent the last few months researching about it in the few free hours I have after all my other work is done (I’m also currently learning for my AZ-104 certification) and I’m still a little bit overwhelmed with my task and only recently created a company tenant. I would love to do this because I feel like it’s great for my career but I don’t know if I’m underestimating the scope of this task.
What time frame is realistic for a system admin to learn enough to actually pull this off? Or should I just give up and vouch for the hiring of an experienced freelancer? How much would that cost anyway?
As someone who has performed multiple enterprise migrations (lift & shifts and modernizations) to AWS - this will most likely be a large undertaking. Modernizations are especially more difficult than a lift and shift. Hard to say how long it will take without knowing the entire list of things moving.
