Azure Administrator

Skills

· Candidates must have at least 3+ years of experience deploying enterprise workloads to Azure for highly integrated medium to large organizations. · Candidates must have at least 3+years of experience designing and supporting integrated Azure environments including IaaS and PaaS across production and non-production environments · Candidates must have 7+ years of previous system administration experience with cloud or on-premises systems or network administration. · Hands on experience with Azure Portal Cloud Shell Resource Manager ARM Templates PowerShell Python or other scripting languages. · Hands-on experience with one or more configuration management systems such as Ansible Chef or Puppet · Microsoft Azure Certification or other relevant certifications a plus. · Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Enterprise software products and services. · Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science Math or Engineering)

Description

Allianz Life is in need of an experienced Azure Administrator to work on our Transformation Program that will establish ALIP (Accenture Life Insurance and Annuity Platform) on Microsoft’s public cloud, Azure. The solution will also be integrating with numerous systems in our corporate data center.

Responsibilities

• · Expertise in cloud administration and Platform Services, preferably Azure (Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Integration, Application and Data)
• · Experience with AKS, Azure networking and network virtualization, Azure storage, Azure monitoring, Azure Container Repository, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Function Apps, Event Grids, Key Vault, Logic Apps.
• · An understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including virtual machines, virtual networking, and storage.
• · Strong background in network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), VPNs, firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• · Experienced in DevOps, Azure DevOps Pipelines and tooling like Ansible, AWX or Tower, PowerShell, Terraforms, Jenkins, Git, PowerShell, Python, or other scripting languages, etc.
• · Experience with containerization technologies and tools, Docker, Portainer, etc.
• · Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, the Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Experience Requirements

• · Good technical consulting skills, analytical and problem solving skills to troubleshoot systems problems
• · Must be resourceful, self-starter, maintain skill set; aptitude to evaluate / become proficient in new technologies, processes and skills, motivated learner
• · Result oriented, “Let’s do it right” and “Make it happen” attitude, seek win-win outcomes
• · Must have excellent written and verbal skills and be able to communicate and work with all levels of an organization
• · Team player that can collaborate with other teams and positively represent the ALIP and Azure capability team
• · Ability to work independently and as part of a team, ability to coordinate and facilitate technical meetings with multiple vendors and stakeholders
• · Must be flexible, good organizational skills, good listener with attention to detail and have ability to multi-task
• · Must be open to possible off-hour on-call support in high paced environment
• · Prefer background in Insurance and Financial Services