Azure Technical Specialist

Azure Technical Specialist
City of London/hybrid
£Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

Azure, Active Directory, Powershell

Azure Technical Specialist is sought by a prestigious financial services organisation based in the heart of the city (hybrid working). Within this role you will help to support the organisation's infrastructure - both Azure and on-premise - instigating improvement initiatives whilst taking ownership and resolving day-to-day operational issues (requests, incidents, configuration management or scheduled changes). This is a highly technical role that will require collaboration with many different teams across IT.

Key Responsibilities:

• Secure and maintain Private and Public Cloud based applications within Windows Server, Active Directory and other technologies
• Manage incidents, change requests and configuration activities
• Responsible for Azure Operational run activities, including Monitoring, Backup/Recovery, Provisioning, Capacity management
• Maintain security, integrity and business resilience controls and documents
• Investigate and resolve problems as required, specifically in relation to server management
• Producing good quality and timely documentation for all assigned tasks
• Use appropriate tools to analyse, identify and resolve technical problems.
• Proactively ensuring 1st line support functions have the correct skills/tooling/permissions to resolve incident/request at the point of contact
• Risk management - highlighting risks and ensuring that they are documented with potential options for resolution/mitigations
• Participate in project deliverables/outcomes as and when assigned to do so

Key Skills and Experience:

• Experience of Operating in a Private and Public cloud technical environment
• Demonstrable experience supporting Windows Server based solutions, eg Active Directory Forests, High-Availability multi-tier server deployments
• Previous technical experience of Windows Server 2016 & 2019
• Proven experience of networking and communications, Routers, Firewalling, DNS, DHCP
• Automation - Experience of automating repeatable tasks
• Demonstrable experience of administering Microsoft Azure
• Proven track record in and technical knowledge of entire IT Infrastructure, both Private Cloud and Public Cloud, including Networks, Hyper-V, VMware, security and compute environments
• Demonstrable experience of operating private and public cloud environments
• PowerShell
• Working in complex, busy environments with changing priorities
• Effective communication skills - ability to articulate and report on complex technical tasks

For a full consultation on this pivotal role, send your CV to ARC IT Recruitment.