IT Azure Sys Admin

IT Azure Sys Admin

[Austin, TX, 78753] |   2021-11-01 08:01:01

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Job Code : StateofTX06

Candidates must be local to Austin or surrounding area. Candidates must be willing to go to office a minimum 2 days/wk for a rotating support schedule or for IT emergency. Agency has strict safety protocols in place for the limited staff on staff rotations.

BEST AVAILABLE CANDIDATE

Planned start date is ASAP

Candidates can be W2 or Subcontract
Rate = $100/hr

IT Azure Sys Admin

Skills Required:

• 8+ years of experience as a full time IT professional
• Experience designing and supporting Azure environments, including IaaS and PaaS
• Hands on experience using the Azure administration portal
• Demonstrable experience deploying enterprise workloads to Azure
• Proficiency with scripting languages
• Hands-on experience with one or more configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise core services as well as cloud deployments of these services
• Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Enterprise software products and services
• Experience building an Azure infrastructure
• Preferred: Microsoft Azure Certification (MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure or equivalent)

Responsibilities:

• Create a strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in Azure
• Configure and manage MLP’s Virtual Network in Azure, establish our core services in the VNET, enable Azure to serve as a part of MLP’s network
• Develop scripts to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configurations
• Utilize native Azure services to meet the firm’s technology and resiliency requirements
• Drive Identity and access and configuration management, and monitoring strategy for Azure
• Lead design process for network connectivity to Azure
• Extend MLP standard systems management processes into the cloud including change, incident, and problem management
• Establish and implement monitoring and management infrastructure for both availability and performance management
• Establish internal pricing and instance selection model for Azure virtual machines
• Integrate Azure management tooling with MLP including automation of spin-up and spin-down and billing approvals
• Design and implement data protection options, including HA and BCP protection in Azure