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About The Position

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