Azure Platform Administrator

Role: Azure Platform Administrator

Location: Raritan, NJ (Onsite)

Mandatory skills: Azure Cloud Architecture, Databricks

Role summary:

• We are looking for an experienced Azure Platform Administrator with 8 years of strong hands-on exposure to Azure cloud platform operations
• The role will be responsible for managing securing monitoring and optimizing Azure infrastructure services across enterprise environments
• The candidate should have working knowledge of Azure Databricks administration including workspace management access control compute governance and integration with Azure services
• This position requires close collaboration with other platform cloud data engineering DevOps security and application teams to ensure stable scalable and compliant platform operations

Qualifications:

• 8 years of hands-on experience in Azure platform administration or cloud infrastructure operations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Relevant Microsoft Azure certification such as Azure Administrator Associate Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Security Engineer Associate is preferred
• Databricks certification or formal training in Databricks platform administration data engineering or Lakehouse architecture is an added advantage
• Strong communication stakeholder management documentation problem solving and cross functional collaboration skills
• Experience working in enterprise support models production operations change management incident management and compliance driven environments

Key responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Azure platform services such as virtual machines storage accounts virtual networks Azure Key Vault Azure Monitor Azure Backup and identity access components
• Manage Azure subscriptions resource groups role based access control policies tagging standards cost controls and governance guardrails
• Support Azure Databricks workspaces clusters jobs libraries secrets access permissions and work space level configuration
• Implement and maintain secure connectivity patterns including VNets private endpoints firewalls managed identities service principals and storage access controls
• Monitor platform health performance availability usage and cost trends identify optimization opportunities and implement preventive controls
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to support infrastructure automation CICD pipelines deployment standards and environment management across Dev QA UAT and Production
• Troubleshoot Azure and Databricks platform issues related to access compute storage networking job execution and service availability
• Maintain documentation operational runbooks access review processes incident response procedures and platform best practices

Required skills:

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure administration including compute storage networking monitoring security backup and identity services
• Good working knowledge of Azure Databricks platform administration including workspace management cluster policies compute configuration access controls and job monitoring
• Experience with Azure Active Directory or Microsoft Entra ID IAM RBAC managed identities service principals conditional access concepts and secure authentication patterns
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts such as VNets subnets NSGs route tables private endpoints VPN or ExpressRoute DNS and firewall configurations
• Experience with Azure storage services especially ADLS Gen2 storage account security access keys SAS OAuth and integration with Databricks
• Understanding of data platform concepts such as Delta Lake Unity Catalog data governance lineage catalogschematable permissions and secure data access patterns
• Hands-on exposure to automation and scripting using PowerShell Azure CLI Terraform ARMBicep templates or similar infrastructure as code (IaC) tools
• Ability to analyze incidents perform root cause analysis tune platform performance optimize cloud costs and drive operational improvements