Azure Cloud Administrator

Job Description

Insight Global’s SaaS Client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Cloud Administrator with strong experience in Microsoft Azure, Windows Server administration, and Linux systems within hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate excels in cloud infrastructure, automation, troubleshooting, and maintaining secure, high availability systems across both on prem and Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Administration

• Manage Azure services such as virtual machines (Windows & Linux), storage accounts, virtual networks, identity, policies, and monitoring.

• Oversee Azure server side backup operations, including protection policies, restore testing, retention strategies, and integration with on prem systems.

• Work extensively with Azure networking:

o VNets, NSGs, Subnets, Load Balancers, storage types, and deployment types.

o Understand deployment patterns and infrastructure layout in Azure.

Troubleshooting & Operations

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to operating systems, server side networking, cloud workloads, access control, and application performance.

• Support disaster recovery procedures, system restorations, and root cause analysis within hybrid cloud environments.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

• Produce clear documentation covering operational processes, troubleshooting steps, and infrastructure standards.

• Provide training or knowledge-sharing to IT operations and other technical teams.

Systems Lifecycle & Backup

• Perform builds, upgrades, and lifecycle management for servers in both cloud and on prem environments.

• Support backup and restore operations leveraging Azure Backup and related tooling.

Production Support

• Deliver second level support for cloud services, compute resources, storage platforms, and server infrastructure.

• Participate in after hours on call rotations as needed.

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Skills and Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in System Engineering or Administration in an enterprise environment

• Experience supporting an Azure cloud environment (must be fully in cloud or hybrid on prem)

• 3+ years supporting Azure Cloud, specifically back-end and server-side functions, databases, APIs, authentication and networking

• Experience supporting Windows

• Powerhsell scripting experience

• Must go onsite 3x per week in Herndon, VA - Experience using ARM templates for deployments

• Linux environments

• Provide hands on support and diagnosis for Linux systems, including troubleshooting OS issues, performance problems, service failures, and system logs.