Azure Administrator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5 or more years of IT implementation experience
• 3 years or more of hands-on experience with using, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting network infrastructure connecting to Azure Public Cloud Provider, including a deep understanding of and experience with: o Cloud Infrastructure (VNETs, subnets, Network Security Group, route tables, ACLs); authentication policies, DNS, cloud storage and domain management
• Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure (applications, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, IP networks, storage networks, cloud platforms, backup networks and media
• Knowledge in integrating Azure with on-prem services like AD, DNS, Firewalls, and load balancers with proper integration patterns and architectures
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure Security, Zero Trust, IAM, Networking, Data Security and leveraging the right solutions in these areas is required
• Experience with API integration, automation, configuration management, monitoring, ensuring security and compliance are thorough in all cloud services implementation
• Experience in Agile methodologies, DevOps model and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) processes and to support CI/CD initiatives is required
• Experience in working with industry regulations, standards, and frameworks like NIST, PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR
• Requires working knowledge of Microsoft technology stack and SQL Server database, including but not limited to high availability, disaster recovery, security, compliance, performance consideration, and cost management.
• Ability to provide both detailed information as well as summaries to management and IT groups.
• Experience in deploying the following: terraform, YAML, ARM template, Power Shell, Azure CLI, git/github, Azure DevOps CI/CD, SQL PaaS & Managed Instances, Azure Kubernetes Services, ASE, IaaS compute, network, and storage
• Familiar with Azure data analytics platform deployment such as deploying infrastructure for Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lakes and Data Factories

Nice To Haves

• Azure Administrator and other Azure certifications preferred

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in cloud environments.
• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies in the cloud.
• Deploy IaaS, PaaS, Containers, and SaaS services in cloud environments.
• Fully understand and manage Access Control Policies and Permissions, Resource Groups and security principles in Cloud environments.
• Provide expertise and best practices for cloud security and compliance.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability and availability.
• Experience deploying Active Directory, LDAP, SSO and integrating with Azure AD.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud services with other company systems.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and trends.
• Design, implement and manage applications in Kubernetes environments within cloud environments.
• Develop highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions to support business applications and processes.
• Develop scripts to automate deployment of cloud resources and services using Ansible, Terraform and PowerShell playbooks.
• Create and maintain detailed solution diagrams associated with application deployments, dependency mapping and business process flows.
• Configure and maintain network monitoring tools associated with applications and business processes.
• Assist with ensuring applications and business processes can be quickly and seamlessly failed over to recovery environments.
• Create and maintain recovery runbooks and standard operating procedures.
• Develop and participate in resiliency, performance, functionality, load and chaos tests for critical business applications and business processes.
• Participate in the planning and execution of resiliency tests.
• Interview application and business teams to gather information about application architecture, dependencies, data flow, capabilities, functions, and performance.
• Direct involvement in setup and tear down of test environments.
• Setup and effectively use troubleshooting and monitoring tools to quickly diagnose connectivity and performance issues.
• Create and present technical solutions to demonstrate design, resilience plan, project status, and test results.

Benefits

• Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package.
• Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.