Description
Azure Specialist
12 Month Contract (Inside IR35)
Competitive rates
London
Purpose of the Job
To perform a mixture of project work and support activities supporting Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.
The role includes but is not limited to the design and building of Azure services to meet business needs, proactive monitoring of our entire Azure environment and supporting this going forward. You will need to ensure that best practise is followed throughout and that data security is at the forefront of how the Azure service is designed and delivered.
Principal Accountabilities
- Configuring, maintaining and monitoring the IaaS resources. This will include but not be limited to the following Azure resources
O Azure Virtual Machines
O Azure Active Directory
O Resource Groups
O Storage Accounts
O Virtual Networks
O Security Centre
- Designing the IaaS Azure environment and ensuring that the documentation is up to date and to a sufficient standard for other team members to use
- Providing and maintaining the Azure remote site Windows build for all remote sites and associated design documentation
Main challenges of the job
- To ensure that the Azure service is secured according to current Microsoft best practise
- Monitoring the Azure performance and adjusting the sizing of the infrastructure accordingly
- Managing the costs of the Azure infrastructure
- Being the primary expert on Azure within the IT team and working to ensure that this knowledge is shared with fellow team members
Essential Skills
- Experience using Microsoft Cloud technologies in the IaaS, PaaS & SaaS arenas, this will include but not be limited to the following Azure resources;
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Active Directory
- Resource Groups
- Storage Accounts
- Virtual Networks
- Security Centre
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Windows Server
- Windows 7/10
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- Networking and security fundamentals
- Securing Cloud Services
- Produce documentation to a high standard and must be pro-active in knowledge transfer to other team members
- Demonstrate excellent problem resolution skills
- Good communication skills both verbal and written pitched to the appropriate level
- Good communication skills both verbal and written pitched to the appropriate level
Desirable
- Capacity planning
- Azure billing and cost management
- Relevant certifications such as;
- MCSE: Cloud Platform & Infrastructure
- MCP: Implementing Microsoft Azure
- MCP: Architecting Microsoft Azure