Cloud Support Engineer at Educor Holdings

The Role

The Cloud Engineer will form an extended part of the development / DevOps teams and will play a central role in forging the strategic direction of cloud and supporting services in the organisation. This is a hands-on role that will include:

• Supporting both the Infrastructure and Development teams in configuration and administration of cloud-based services, process and capacity.
• Architecture of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Remediation and migration of Active Directory into Azure AD and the ongoing architecting and support of Azure AD services.
• Architecting and delivery of Office 365 solutions to enable business process and better support both internal and external clients.
• Research, recommend, deploy, and maintain cloud server/systems infrastructure based on user requirements.
• Work with Development and Infrastructure Services to define and implement policies/governance for physical and cloud-based systems.
• Participate in defining and implementing the overall structure and standards for systems.
• Research and resolve identified security issues
• Support daily activities for Server Infrastructure such as log monitoring, asset inventory, utilization reports and other related activities.
• Research and implementation of new tools to improve efficiency, performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Configuration Management

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT discipline or equivalent job experience
• Relevant Microsoft training and certifications including Azure

Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge of and practical experience with cloud concepts (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Excellent knowledge of Active Directory, Office 365, Azure, Azure AD and authentication technologies

Experience:

• 5 years job experience as a Server Administrator or similar capacity.
• Experience with AD and Azure AD migrations

Desired Skills:

• PowerShell Scripting
• ARM Templates
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills; ability to work well independently and as part of a team
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Detail oriented