Azure Specialist

Alberta Securities Commission • Calgary, AB

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) is seeking an Azure Specialist to join their Information Technology (IT) team. This newly created position will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting Azure cloud resources, aligning with the ASC's cloud-first strategic direction. Responsibilities may also include M365 and Teams administration, along with other cloud and infrastructure system administration services. The IT team ensures the ASC has the necessary resources for reliable and secure service delivery, anticipating the organization's technology needs.

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 Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including service management and administration across computer, 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 the 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, service requests, and contribute 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 the 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, 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
• an employee family assistance program
• transportation allowance
• generous flexible spending account
• professional development through subsidized courses, conference, workshops, seminars and in-house training
• ASC Social Club initiatives
• annual United Way Campaign

What This Job Offers

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