Azure Specialist

Alberta Securities Commission

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) is seeking an Azure Specialist to join their Information Technology (IT) team. The IT team is responsible for ensuring the ASC has the necessary resources for consistent, reliable, and secure service delivery, while understanding and anticipating the organization's technology needs. This newly created position, reporting to the Manager of IT Infrastructure and Operations, will focus on designing, implementing, and supporting Azure cloud resources in line with the ASC's cloud-first strategy. Responsibilities may also include support for M365, Teams administration, and other cloud and infrastructure system administration services.

Requirements

• A diploma or university degree in computer science, software engineering, management information systems, or a related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience delivering IT services, including infrastructure and systems administration, with a strong recent focus on Azure cloud services.
• At least three years of this experience in an operations-focused, IT Azure Specialist or Azure Cloud Engineer role, which may include cloud, infrastructure, security, and/or networking.
• Strong expertise in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including service management and administration across compute, storage, and networking.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments, supporting cloud migrations and ongoing cost optimization.
• Knowledge of cloud deployment automation tools (Terraform or Bicep IaaC), Azure Resource Manager, and PowerShell scripting and cloud monitoring.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• The ability to adapt to changing project requirements and quickly learn new cloud tools, services, and technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, and/or Teams Administration are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating Azure services, patterns, and operating practices against industry and Microsoft best practices.
• Providing hands-on technical expertise to the infrastructure and cloud roadmap as workloads migrate from on-premises platforms to Azure.
• Designing and deploying cloud resources based on target state architecture and design specifications, standards, requirements, and best practices, including network, VMs, storage, databases, and other services.
• Integrating security throughout cloud design, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, network security, and compliance controls.
• Creating deployment plans, impact analyses, and change requests to support cloud resources.
• Configuring enterprise-level cloud environments (landing zones) for workloads using Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Analyzing costs and trade-offs to right-size cloud resources based on non-functional requirements.
• Planning and executing cloud migrations of on-premises workloads, including cutovers and post-migration validation, testing, and infrastructure hardening.
• Working closely with the Cloud and Infrastructure Architect to apply approved architectures, patterns, standards, and naming conventions.
• Providing level 2/3 support for Azure-based services, including incidents and service requests, and contributing to incident resolution, service recovery, and root-cause analysis.
• Sharing operational metrics to identify improvement opportunities, recommend ongoing cloud cost and performance optimization, and ensure compliance with standards and policies.
• Participating in the execution of test plans (backup and recovery, DR testing, security testing).
• Utilizing monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor) to configure alerts and analyze logs to proactively detect and resolve issues.

Benefits

• 100 per cent employer-paid benefits
• Comprehensive health and dental
• Employee life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Retirement benefits
• Travel insurance
• Paid vacation time, flex and sick days
• Employee family assistance program
• Transportation allowance
• Generous flexible spending account
• Professional development through subsidized courses, conferences, workshops, seminars, and in-house training
• ASC Social Club initiatives
• Annual United Way Campaign participation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree