M365 Azure Cloud Specialist - Dublin - 6Mos

Parity Group are recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation in Ireland, who are looking to recruit a M365 Azure Cloud Specialist for an initial 6 months.This role is full time onsite in their central Dublin offices, 5 days per week. Remote or hybrid working is not possible for this role.

This role pays up to €600p/day DOE and operating via your own Limited company or Umbrella Company.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be working on Cloud Infrastructure-As-A-Service technologies focused on the smooth provision of Cloud Managed Services. They will be technical support for M365 and Azure cloud technologies, particularly Infrastructure-As-A-Service storage, server, containers, and data protection environments. They will work closely with onsite and offsite L1/L2 support teams. This includes management and device deployment via Windows10/Intune/Endpoint management.

Scope of the Role

• Provides incident & problem management services for resolving technical issues on cloud IAAS infrastructure.
• Acts as point of escalation for technical issues and manages & troubleshoots issues on cloud environments based on Microsoft best practice processes and industry standards.
• Will be responsible for monitoring and managing several IAAS environments.
• Manages escalated infrastructure support issues supporting L1 and deskside support team.
• Documents environments, processes, and procedures to enable support of cloud environments by other members of the team.
• Works with ICT Manager to enhance cloud infrastructure to meet QQI's future cloud deployment requirements.
• Remains current on technical and company related literature/correspondence and regularly reviews administrative procedures.
• Keeps current with Cloud technical certifications, specialisation exams, and licenses.
• Provides technical expertise and acts as a technical specialist.

The Essentials

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience of Microsoft Windows Server, Windows 10
• Experience of Azure Services as above
• Experience in Identity and Access Management, Azure Active Directory External Identities
• 5+ Azure AD
• 5+ years Active Directory
• Microsoft 365 suite
• Microsoft Intune/End point manager
• Understanding of ITIL framework and related processes
• Experience of desktop imaging/desktop application deployment
• 5+ years' experience in a similar role
• Good problem resolution skills
• 2+ years Microsoft Sentinel experience

Key Technologies

• Desktops - prominently Dell
• Laptops - Dell; Tablets; Surface Pros; Mobile Phones: Apple iPhones
• Microsoft Windows 10/11
• Microsoft 365, inc Teams & SharePoint 2016
• Active Directory/Azure Active Directory & Domain services
• VPN, site-to-site & Azure VPN
• SSO from on-prem applications to Azure
• Windows Hello, inc certificate trust deployment
• Microsoft Endpoint management/Intune
• Azure Migrate, Azure Backup, Azure Managed Applications
• Powershell
• Microsoft Graph Explorer
• Security Center - SSO, MFA, conditional access Auth methodology
• Azure Monitor, Azure Service Health,
• Azure Sentinel

If this sounds like the role for you, please get in touch for more information or click on the apply button.

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