Azure Cloud Administrator

Company: Kforce Technology
Location: North Andover
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client that is seeking an Azure Cloud Administrator in North Andover, MA. Essential Duties: * Ensure the day to day operations meet internal and customer performance standards required to be successful in the marketplace* Maintain the critical customer facing business systems 24/7/365* In support of our global business, system outages to this critical environment have to be minimized and will require immediate support and resolution at any time* Ensure timely resolution of issues, responsible for communicating with all impacted parties the status and resolution of all issues* Maintain very close collaboration with internal and external partners to maintain the operation that supports our IoT strategy and priorities* Will require working cross-business unit / cross-platform to maintain alignment with stakeholder needs* Collaborate with application development teams, middleware teams and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration within the production environment* This includes validation planning, coordination of validation testing and reporting of production readiness for deployment* Establish standards, tools, and processes to be used within the team and will have the processes in place to guarantee adherence to those standards* DevOps practices and Agile project management* Assists with special projects or other duties as assignedJob Requirements:REQUIREMENTS:* Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science or related field desired* 3+ years of relevant IoT experience in a technology sector* 3+ years of active hands-on experience in cloud services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)* Minimum of 1 year of experience actively implementing cloud solutions and using Azure services* High proficiency in written and oral communication for conveyance of cloud solution work products Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite* Demonstrated experience in broad systems architectural skills, and driving customer adoption* Experience moving workloads from on premise to IaaS (Azure, AWS, etc.)* Strong Networking experience, including hybrid cloud experience* Ability to design the architectures for integrating core infrastructure technologies in support of enterprise applications* Strong Active Directory experience, including Group Policy Administration, Replication and Deployment experience* DevOps and/or Micro-services experience with at least one technology including Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Service etc.* Cloud vendor certifications are a plus (Azure, AWS, Google, etc.)* Versed and comfortable in various project methodologiesKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.SDL2017

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