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It also partners closely with DevOps, Information Security, Application Development, Application Support, PPMO, and managed-service providers.\nKey Responsibilities\nCloud Infrastructure & Azure\nDesign, implement, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and cloud services.\nManage Azure subscriptions, resource groups, networking, compute, storage, identity integration, monitoring, and related platform services.\nMonitor Azure service health and proactively coordinate responses to platform incidents and degradation. This reflects current operational work such as identifying an Azure Container Registry image-pull degradation and determining its impact on non-production environments.\nEstablish and maintain cloud engineering standards for availability, performance, scalability, security, and supportability.\nSupport cloud services used by application and DevOps teams, including Azure-hosted and AKS-based workloads.\nCloud Cost Management & Optimization\nContinuously review Azure consumption, run rates, forecasts, budgets, and resource utilization.\nIdentify cost anomalies and optimization opportunities and work with technical owners to remediate them.\nEnsure new infrastructure builds are reviewed for both technical requirements and cost efficiency.\nDevelop proactive monitoring and reporting for cloud spend.\nWindows, Identity & Hybrid Infrastructure\nEngineer and support enterprise Windows Server and hybrid infrastructure services.\nAdminister Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD-related infrastructure capabilities and integrations.\nSupport On-Premises Active Directory, DNS, authentication, certificates, service accounts, and related enterprise services.\nTroubleshoot complex infrastructure problems spanning cloud and on-premises environments.\nProvide senior-level escalation support to internal IT teams and managed service providers.\nIdentify Azure AD and advanced Windows knowledge as important components of the current position.\nVirtualization & Infrastructure Modernization\nSupport the modernization and reduction of legacy on-premises infrastructure.\nEvaluate and implement virtualization technologies and migration strategies.\nParticipate in the organization's transition away from legacy VMware dependencies where appropriate.\nSupport Nutanix or comparable virtualization/hyperconverged platforms based on the approved infrastructure architecture.\nBackup, Recovery & Disaster Recovery\nAdminister and support enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including Rubrik.\nAssist with backup policies, monitor backup health, investigate failures, and support data-restoration requests.\nStrong knowledge of e-Discovery\nServe as a technical contributor for Disaster Recovery planning, testing, documentation, and remediation.\nParticipate in production DR exercises and maintain infrastructure recovery procedures.\nDevelop sufficient knowledge and documentation to eliminate single-person dependencies for critical recovery functions.\nMonitoring, Reliability & Operational Excellence\nImplement and maintain proactive infrastructure and application-platform monitoring.\nSupport Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting, capacity management, and infrastructure observability.\nInvestigate service degradation, performance issues, unusual consumption patterns, and platform incidents.\nDrive root-cause analysis and preventative remediation.\nImprove availability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through automation and standardization.\nSecurity, Compliance & IT Controls\nPartner with Information Security to maintain secure infrastructure configurations and remediate vulnerabilities.\nSupport internal and external audits and provide infrastructure evidence as required.\nEnsure identified security and audit findings are remediated within agreed timelines.\nFollow privileged-access, change-management, configuration-management, and infrastructure-security standards.\nMaintain accurate infrastructure and operational documentation.\nProject & Business Support\nProvide infrastructure engineering support for PPMO-led business and technology initiatives.\nDevelop technical requirements, estimates, implementation plans, and infrastructure designs.\nDeliver assigned project work on schedule and within approved budget.\nCoordinate infrastructure dependencies with Application Development, DevOps, Application Support, Security, vendors, and MSP resources.\nParticipate in architecture and technical design reviews.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of 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