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As Azure Cloud Administrator at McElhanney, you will play a key role in the administration, security, reliability, and day-to-day operation of our Microsoft cloud environment, with primary responsibility for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Entra ID. As our use of Microsoft cloud technologies grows, you will help establish secure, scalable, and sustainable administration practices.\nDuring the implementation and growth of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, you will also provide technical administration and operational ownership of those environments. As our Dynamics 365 capability matures, application-specific access administration and functional duties will move to a dedicated Dynamics functional/application team, and you will continue to partner closely with them on identity, security, environments, releases, and governance.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nAzure Administration: Administer Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and services in line with our architecture, security, and operational standards, and monitor health, performance, capacity, and cost.\nIdentity & Access: Administer Microsoft Entra ID, including Conditional Access, MFA, privileged access, enterprise applications, and admin roles. Apply role-based access control, least privilege, and segregation of duties, and take part in access reviews.\nDynamics 365 & Power Platform Administration: Provision and manage environments through their full lifecycle (create, copy, refresh, backup, restore, decommission), and administer environment security, roles, licensing, capacity, and service health.\nRelease & Deployment Control: Define the environment strategy (development, test, training, production), own release and deployment controls and runbooks, and support controlled movement of solutions between environments with implementation partners.\nGovernance & Security: Help establish Dynamics 365 and Power Platform governance standards. Take part in vulnerability management, security reviews, audits, and risk remediation, and assess the impact of Microsoft service changes.\nBackup & Recovery: Support cloud backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery.\nTroubleshooting & Vendors: Resolve authentication, connectivity, integration, and deployment issues, and coordinate with Microsoft and implementation partners on incidents.\nOperational Readiness: Work with project teams and partners so new services are ready for sustainable support, with monitoring, documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer completed before production.\nAutomation & Improvement: Use scripting and infrastructure-as-code to standardize administration, and take part in incident, problem, and change processes to improve reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness.\nCollaboration: Work with cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise applications, and project teams, and set clear responsibilities and handoffs with the Dynamics functional team.\nWhat You'll Bring\nCertifications:\nMicrosoft certifications in Azure, security, identity, Dynamics 365, or Power Platform are considered an asset.\nExperience:\nMinimum of 5+ years of demonstrated experience administering Microsoft Azure in a production enterprise environment.\nStrong experience with Microsoft Entra ID, identity and access management, RBAC, Conditional Access, and authentication.\nExperience administering Microsoft 365 and other Microsoft cloud services.\nExperience with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform administration, or with comparable Microsoft cloud platforms and the ability to quickly build that expertise.\nExperience with release, deployment, and change management for production enterprise applications, and with structured IT service management practices.\nTechnical Proficiency:\nPower Platform: Environments, Dataverse, environment security, licensing, capacity, backup and restore, and lifecycle management.\nSecurity: Least privilege, privileged administration, secure configuration, and segregation-of-duties controls.\nScripting & Automation: PowerShell, infrastructure-as-code, or related cloud administration tooling is an asset.\nPartners: Experience working with systems integrators, vendors, or implementation partners is an asset.\nSkills/Attributes:\nProblem-Solving: Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.\nOwnership: Ability to take ownership of developing platforms and build structure where practices are still maturing, balancing implementation priorities with sustainable architecture, security, and operations.\nCollaboration: Works effectively across technical teams, business teams, project teams, and external partners with intersecting responsibilities.\nDocumentation: Strong documentation and knowledge-transfer practices.\nAdaptability: Comfortable in an environment of significant technology change and organizational growth.\nWhat Can We Offer You?\nThe salary range for this position is 100,000- 120,000 per annum. 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