Azure System Administrator at OUTsurance

Job Responsibilities (Primary):

• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the design and delivery of cloud solutions and services by analysing, designing, implementing, and operating cloud infrastructure and integrated technologies through security, resiliency, and scalability, within hybrid, private and public cloud IT environments.
• Provide expert level design and engineering support towards the successful delivery of client and partner cloud project portfolios.
• Identify, assess, and present options to business for meeting their functional and technical requirements.
• Assist in the design and implementation, upgrade and migration paths for cloud IaaS and PaaS. Conduct system tests and recommend required corrective action.
• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the design and delivery of cloud solutions.

Competencies

The successful individual would need to demonstrate the below listed competencies at an advanced level:

• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships
• Problem-solving with strong decision-making mind-set
• Takes initiative and works under own direction
• Upholds ethics and values and demonstrates high levels of integrity
• Methodically plans and organises tasks and projects
• Demonstrates a high level of attention to detail
• Development and testing support
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Diagnosing performance problems
• Creating indexes for improved performance
• Suggesting table design changes to improve performance
• Creating backups and recovery testing of the backups
• Capacity planning for continued data growth
• Proven ability to assist team with investigation, analysis, design, and delivery of solutions
• Ability to ensure delivery across multiple projects simultaneously
• Willingness to work after hours and fulfil possible standby requirements

Personality:

• Good interpersonal skills including strong verbal and written communication
• Attention to detail
• Good telephone manner
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Must be proactive
• Ability to prioritise multiple tasks and deadlines
• Ambitious, delivery focused, and deadline driven
• Team Player who can work alone when required
• Ability to work well with different personalities

Qualifications

Must have competencies:

• Matric Certificate / National Senior certificate.
• Certification as a Microsoft Azure Administrator and/or Microsoft Azure Architect (Desired)
• BSc Computer Science Degree, IT Diploma, MCSE, or similar (Desired)
• Minimum 5 years Azure Administration

Must have working experience in

• Solid working knowledge of on-prem Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory?
• Solid working experience with O365 migration methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem identification skills
• Ability to provide input into technical architecture decisions
• Ability to identify shortcoming and improve on current processes and standards
• Co-ordinating bug fixes with vendors
• Strong experience in implementing, monitoring, maintaining Microsoft Azure solutions, including major services related to Compute, Storage, Network and Security
• Firm grasp of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS technologies whether on premise or in the cloud platforms and applications
• Understand integrated technologies through security, resiliency, scalability, hybrid, private and public clouds.