Microsoft Azure Admin

Expertise in managing and maintaining the Azure Cloud environment for multiple project based systems.

Responsibilities

• Server provisioning in cloud virtualization, administration, troubleshooting management.

• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure OS, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all cloud based resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

• Perform daily backup operations using Microsoft Azure Backup Solution or any other solution, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.

• Engage Azure support team in case of outages and document for future reference.

• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.

• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

• Provide Level 1 and 2 support as per request from various stakeholders. Investigate and troubleshoot issues related to operating system, SQL database, application performance and access

• Repair and recover from software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted stakeholders.

• Upgrade or downgrade server size, storage size, database level as per application requirement.

• Deploy application package as and when require.

• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.

• Upgrade and configure system software that supports standard infrastructure applications or asset management applications per project or operational needs.

• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.

• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Skill Sets Required:

• Certification in MS Azure Cloud, MCSE / MCP

• Microsoft Azure Cloud administration support

• Good understanding of PaaS, SaaS offerings on Azure

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012 administration

• Symantec EndPoint Protection Server Client Management Configuration

• WMI / Windows Power shell scripting

• Basic knowledge on database management administration.