Azure Administrator

Fujitsu’s multi-province Canadian Education Practice is currently looking to hire a full-time Azure system administrator for the blended hybrid and/or remote BC team (PST time zone).

As part of a dedicated provincial operations team, the successful candidate will continue to build their experience within an established province-wide education solution managed within the Azure Cloud. They will share the general responsibilities of designing, monitoring, correcting and improving a mature operational 24/7 environment. Additionally they will be involved in enabling activities of SAFe development teams, supporting the effective delivery of services to our customer.

Role expectations

The successful candidate will bring proven support experience within an infrastructure and platform environment, using best practices and proven solutions across multiple supported application platforms within Azure. Proven experience within network and network security is an asset. The high availability environment continues to evolve in the midst of evolving business needs, providing the candidate an exciting and challenging environment with a mixture of ongoing services and integration of new or upgraded solutions. As a member of SAFe component team, the candidate will participate in the collective ownership of infrastructure, platform, application and support (whole service) environment.

Responsibilities

• Business as Usual Delivery – Work within a SAFe Agile team, managing their own work to define, build, test, and deliver value.
• Operational Excellence – Participates in the ongoing operational practices throughout the business as usual lifecycle with a focus on efficiency and automation. This includes operational reporting requirements and processes.
• Collaboration –the team member works closely with the Architect, and other members of the operation and feature teams to enable solutions in iterations as the requirements and/or solution evolves.
• Standards and Efficiency - Share best practices and always look for continuous improvement / efficiency opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Baseline Management – Maintaining and enhancing the tools provided, maintain visibility into the run state of the environment, with established controls and processes, meeting operational requirements
• Workload Management – Monitoring, assessing and scaling the database and application environments based on workload to established service levels
• Platform Management – Monitoring, assessing and managing the cloud computing service performance and availability, to established service levels
• Operational Excellence – Assists in supporting and improving ongoing operational practices throughout the lifecycle of the business application with a focus on efficiency and automation.
• Iterative Improvements - The team member will keep up with solution components utilized in order to react to cloud service changes and how it may influence the maintainability of the solution.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of operational experience with distributed applications and infrastructure.
• 2+ years of on-call experience, responding and addressing automated alerts and call in escalations
• 1+ years of experience in leveraging Azure in enterprise environments.
• In-depth technical skills in infrastructure & server infrastructure support
• Experience monitoring and maintaining infrastructure and platform solutions to meet or exceed standards defined within Service Level Agreements for a 24/7/365 environment.
• Strong communication skills in order to effectively communicate with and make strategic recommendations to all levels of internal/external service partners
• A deep passion for technology and a love of learning new things.
• Ability to understand business processes and deploy applications and services in the cloud
  
  

Mandatory Skills/Experience

• > 5 Years' Overall Operations Implementation experience
• > 2 years of 24 hour on call services for system availability and performance incidents
• > 2 years of secure network and best practice experience
• > 1 Year Inventory and Visibility Support(service health, Log analytics, inventory and change tracking, network monitoring, DNS monitoring, service change tracking)
• > 1 Year Platform Operations (Service Catalog, IaaS data performance, autoscaling, Automated Remediation)
• > 1 Year Operations Compliance (Resource Organization, Operations Automation, Patch Management, Policy Enforcement, Environment Configuration)
• > 1 Year Workload Operations (Database Performance, Application Monitoring, Performance Availability, Autoscale, Automated Remediation)
• > 1 Year Azure Protection and Recovery(Security Management, Data Protection, Rapid Recovery)
  
  

Nice to Haves

• 1+ years of Expressroute support
• 2+ years of infrastructure and platform load testing
• 2+ years’ experience in database administration, and supporting physical and logical Microsoft SQL databases, analyzing SQL workloads, tuning indexes, recommending resource usage improvements to development teams and vendors
• 3+ years’ experience in Linux and Microsoft application tier support and development, supporting physical and logical Linux and Microsoft environments, analyzing functional specifications, designing, documenting and developing technical specifications
• SAFe agilest or greater accreditation
• Strong proven experience in formal incident and problem management
• Business Continuity and Disaster recovery planning, testing and deployment
• Writing Operational documentation for all processes and procedures