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We are particularly interested in AZ-305 certified professionals with hands-on experience designing and deploying Azure cloud environments. Experience delivering Azure infrastructure projects, backup and disaster recovery solutions, business continuity capabilities and secure cloud architectures is highly valued. Register your profile so your experience can be considered for suitable opportunities as they become available.\n\nKey Responsibilities: \nDesign Azure cloud architectures aligned with business, technical, security and operational requirements.\nPlan and oversee deployment of Azure cloud environments and infrastructure services.\nDesign Azure Backup, restoration and disaster recovery solutions to support business continuity.\nDefine monitoring, security, resilience and infrastructure-protection approaches across Azure environments.\nProvide technical guidance to implementation teams during delivery, testing and handover.\n\nJob Experience & Skills Required / Ideal Candidate Profile:\nEducation\nRelevant degree, diploma or equivalent qualification in IT, Computer Science, Cloud Computing or a related field is advantageous.\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification is required.\nAdditional Microsoft Azure, infrastructure or cybersecurity certifications will be advantageous.\nRelevant cloud architecture or infrastructure training will be beneficial.\n\nExperience\nStrong hands-on experience designing and deploying Microsoft Azure cloud environments.\nPrevious experience delivering Azure cloud infrastructure implementation projects.\nExperience designing and implementing Azure Backup, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.\nPractical experience with backup restoration, disaster recovery testing, cloud security and infrastructure monitoring.\n\nSkills\nAzure cloud architecture, infrastructure design and deployment.\nAzure Backup, recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery planning.\nAzure security, monitoring, resilience and infrastructure protection.\nTechnical solution design, implementation oversight and stakeholder collaboration.\n\nLocation: Gauteng\n\nApply now!\n\nFor more exciting IT vacancies, please visit:\nwww.networkcontracting.co.za\n\nI also specialise in recruiting in the following fields:\nArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning\nSoftware Development\nData Engineering & Analytics\n\nIf you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. 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