Azure Administration Engineer

Job Description

Azure Administration EngineerA highly reputable financial services corporation is hiring an Azure Administration Engineer who has the ability to build out a new Azure environment from scratch. You will join a new constructed team to focus on cloud transformation and shadow a 3rd partyvendor to manage IAM. This role will incorporate design, high level requirements, development of practices and the ability to translate cloud usage into operation management. The ideal candidate will guide stakeholders with data to support delivering value,managing costs and making information available to support activities in IT and the Business. Our client is paying a basic salary of up to £70,000 + 15% bonus to be based in either Chatham or Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis. The role is responsible for ensuring compliance in the administration of access and accounts, reporting and reconciliation of the Cloud usage and billing to provide transparency at a business/hub and project level, and also recommending optimization strategiesto proactively manage the costs of our client during their exciting transformation programme. Core responsibilities:Responsible for new account provisioning, which controls the deployment and configuration of cloud infrastructure shared components via Kubernetes and managing compliance and consistency across the evolving hybrid cloud environmentReporting of Cloud usage (Account, subscription, Project and Kubernetes levels), billing and costs to the application and finance teams. Also providing advice and guidance on optimizing and reducing costs by proactively analysing cloud resource cost optimisationrecommendations from tools provided by the cloud service providerManage overall cloud economics and utilization, help develop cloud adoption business cases and drive value optimization and benefit realizationEnsuring that the Cloud tagging strategy is enforced, governed (under change logs) and maintainedUsing technical knowledge and expertise to input into easily consumable MI and the development of an automated self-service Cloud consumption dashboard for use by key business stakeholdersMember of Cloud Centre of Excellence team to produce infrastructure solutions that provide optimal Business and Customer outcomes, whilst maintaining the required commercial and strategic focusCore skill set:Equivalent of 5 years previous experience implementing & managing Azure infrastructure to meet the business needs is essentialEquivalent of 5 years previous experience in monitoring & management of Azure platforms & associated supporting applications is essentialEquivalent of 5 years previous experience in technical support for Azure technologies is essentialStrong Knowledge of MS Azure account structure, subscriptions and management groups is essentialStrong Knowledge of MS Azure Security (i.e. IAM), Cost Management module, Advisor and other MS Azure Core Services is essentialStrong Knowledge of monitoring & dashboard products (Splunk, Grafana etc.) is essentialStrong knowledge of Azure AD is essentialMicrosoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsBenefits package:£60,000 + 15% Bonus + Work from home options - 28 Days Holiday - Medical Cover - Life Cover - Pension - Flexible BenefitsAzure Administration Engineer

Keyskills :
Azure IAM Licensing Cloud Usage