Cloud Administrator

Qualifications and experience

• 3+ years of experience administering Azure in production environments (or equivalent cloud administration experience with strong Azure proficiency).
• Strong understanding of Azure IAM concepts (RBAC, conditional access concepts, privileged access workflows) and governance practices.
• Hands-on experience with Azure networking and connectivity troubleshooting (VNets, NSGs, firewalling, VPN/ExpressRoute, DNS).
• Experience operating compute and storage services (VMs, disks, storage accounts) and implementing backup and patching practices.
• Experience with monitoring/logging and incident response in a 24x7 or business-critical environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to produce concise operational documentation.

Preferred skills and certifications

• Azure Administrator certification (e.g., AZ-104) or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD practices for platform changes.
• Experience with security tooling and practices (Defender for Cloud, vulnerability management workflows, log-based detections).
• Experience supporting PaaS services (e.g., App Services) and workload onboarding standards.
• Scripting/automation skills (PowerShell, Azure CLI) to reduce toil and improve consistency.