Azure Administrator - SCHIE POD D - Nearshore (1)

Azure Administrator

• Experience: 8+ years Windows or UNIX administration, at least 6 with cloud services
• Education: BS/BA in technical discipline or equivalent experience (4 years in position + below)
• Certification:
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Required
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ304 or AZ-305) Required

Technologies of expertise: 

Windows Server Administration, Cloud Concepts, Azure IAAS Administration (network, storage, virtual 

machines), Azure SAAS Administration, Azure Resource Manager, PowerShell, Azure AD (Staff Level), 

Azure Architecture (Staff Level), Azure CycleCloud (Staff Level), Cloud Architecture (Staff Level), Hybrid 

Architecture (Staff Level)

Required Software and Services Knowledge:

Apache, Azure service fundamentals, Azure NetApp Files, DNS, LDAP, NIS, Print Queues, SSH, Active 

Directory, X and associated remote access tools, NFS, CIFS, Common UNIX tools and Common Windows 

Tools

Required OS Systems Administration: Windows Server, Windows Client and knowledge on Linux 

(Redhat and Ubuntu distributions and their derivatives)

Common Office Tools: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Teams, PowerBI, Microsoft SQL and 

Microsoft Cloud Database technologies

Required Programming Skills: Perl, Python, Powershell, Shell Languages including Bourne, C-Shell and 

derivatives and SQL

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities associated with Azure Cloud administration and management for hardware engineering 

which can be managed from a remote site. End user contact and communication is a key element in 

the successful delivery of IT support; therefore, prompt, and professional service will be mandatory. 

You will handle basic end user personally identifying information: name, username, IP address and 

should perform support, consulting, implementation, and related services as more fully described 

below.

Specific Administration responsibilities associated with hardware engineering IT Support include: 

• Responding to, addressing, and resolving first-tier end user IT service requests 

• Tracking the creation and closure of end user service requests through service request tracking 

system 

• Administer and maintain Azure-based compute environments. 

• Managing end user accounts 

• Actively manage Network Appliance and storage infrastructure, including CIFS and quotas 

• Implementing system security and controls processes 

o Monitoring and administering all Windows services, including but not limited to: 

o Domain Name Services (DNS) 

o E-mail 

o Network Infrastructure Service (NIS) 

o Light Directory Application Protocol (LDAP) 

o Altair Accelerator Queue 

• Hands-on experience of configuration management, Infrastructure as a Code, Git and CI/CD will be 

an added advantage.

• Performing scheduled software server maintenance 

• Deploying new versions of software and operating systems 

• Managing security updates 

• Developing and maintaining procedural documentation 

• Interacting with the corporate IT System Administrators 

• Maintaining version control over for all installed software

Specific Systems Engineering responsibilities associated with hardware engineering IT Support 

include: 

• Evaluating and Enhancing system administration procedures including leveraging any possible 

automation opportunities 

• Researching and presenting viable options for implementing new technologies

• Developing and maintaining Windows system administrative documentation for systems, both 

physical and procedural peculiar to this engagement 

• Interacting with the corporate IT System Administrators 

• Creating tools to automate common system administration tasks through Python, Perl or Shell 

Scripting.

Other critical requirements

• Structured approach to project management, problem solving skills and be a team player.

• Proficient in written and spoken English (CEFR C1 or equivalent)

• Service level tracking and reporting

• Azure DevOps project updates, Project tracking and reporting

• A quick learner and automation skills are critical.