Description
Systems Administrator - Dublin
6 Month Contract Initially
Day Rate - Competitive market rates
Ideally onsite but can consider hybrid work model
About the role
Rapidly expanding global Fund Services Company, our client uses a private cloud computing model with most IT services outsourced to several vendors. The Senior Cloud Infrastructure System Administrator will report to Infrastructure manager on a functional basis but support a number of Service Managers and Projects Managers in line with the demands of the business.
Senior Cloud Infrastructure System Administrator will play a vital role in IT Operations. He/she should act as a trusted advisor and possess subject matter expertise in his/her domain to collaborate and facilitate with the Technical Design Team in designing, planning, implementing state of art IT solutions.
Key duties and responsibilities
- Build an excellent awareness of the business requirements and in-depth knowledge of our Azure Cloud infrastructure, adjacent technologies, and supporting processes
- Provide deep-level troubleshooting in conjunction with vendor and third-party support within the applicable technology platforms
- Work with the Technical Design team, vendors, and project managers to implement solutions as per the agreed HLD and LLD designs and transition them into BAU
- Responsible for the planning and implementation of small to medium projects and assist with migration projects arising from mergers and acquisitions.
- Responsible for ensuring that delivery and support teams are aware for any new service being introduced that may require training and education of the respective teams
- Act as the interface between the IT Workplace L2 team and Technical Design team to ensure that the operations team has detailed knowledge of the infrastructure and implemented services
- Planning and engineering of normal, standard, or emergency changes within the applicable technology platform that you are responsible for
- Collaborates with service providers and external vendors on root cause analysis for problems related to technology and provide detailed diagnostic information when required.
- Suggest and develop different automation solutions in the environment
- Ability to prepare and deliver clear, concise, and persuasive communication for multiple audiences, including effective writing, presentation skills, listening actively
- Highlight and report all major IT issues and risks to IT Manager in a timely manner.
- Research, test and implement new systems to improve efficiencies and satisfy user requests.
- Assist with testing system releases, patches, and disaster recovery.
- Provide technical input into vendors proposal, change requests, and incident management
- Support the business in the governance and management of vendors covering IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS with technical input.
- Perform on-call duties as needed to support technology services to business.
Experience and skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.
- 7+ years' deep technical experience in designing, building, and deploying private or public cloud solutions, storage, virtualization, and identity.
- Support and implementation of Azure networking for enterprise environments
- Support and build of a hybrid environments and resilient Azure cloud solutions
- Proven skills and excellent understanding of Azure, Azure AD, Virtual networks, Express Routes, Load Balancers, ADFS, Windows server OS and all adjacent services like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Authority, IIS and etc.
- Experience in virtualization technologies like VMWare or Hyper-V
- Excellent PowerShell Scripting is a requirement
- Knowledge in Citrix desktop virtualisation technologies (XenApp/Xendesktop/CVDA) and Office365 will be considered as a strong advantage
- Mandatory certification in Azure or Windows Server administration
- Certification in other platform or Cloud technologies will be considered as a strong advantage
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and good at working under own initiative.
- Ability to take ownership of a technical solution and work with several stakeholders (internal and external) to deliver a design and implementation approach.
- Excellent written and communication skills in English.
- Ability to articulate design topics, using tools such as Visio, PowerPoint, and any modelling tools utilising ArchiMate.
- Ability to be able to work well under pressure
- Certification in frameworks such as ITIL v4, ISO 27001 would be an advantage