Azure Cloud Operations Administrator

7777 Weston Rd, Woodbridge, ON L4L 0G9, Canada

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. | Expires Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 3:59 a.m.

Sporting Life Group is a proudly Canadian company of retail banners, Sporting Life, Golf Town, and Team Town Sports, united by a shared passion for sport and active living.

From individual pursuits to team sports, we offer the best equipment, expert services, and experiences to help Canadians play, move, and live well.

• Access to our benefits package, with the choice of different levels of health, dental, and vision coverage to suit you.
• Employee discounts at Golf Town, Sporting Life, and Team Town Sports that are shareable with friends and family.
• Team-first culture that celebrates an active, sports lifestyle.
• Fun, fast-paced hybrid environment where your passion for sport and style belongs.
• Vendor Pro Deals and expert product training to fuel your knowledge and performance.
• A salary range of $100,000 – 115,000 (dependent on experience), bonus, and opportunities to grow your career in the sports lifestyle.

As the Azure Cloud Operations Administrator, you will be responsible for the day-to‑day administration, monitoring, support, and optimization of our Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring our cloud platform remains secure, stable, and high performing. In this hands‑on operational role, you will support our hybrid infrastructure, manage production incidents, optimize cloud resources, and drive continuous improvements that enhance reliability, security, governance, and cost efficiency.

Working closely with infrastructure, security, architecture, and business teams, you will play a key role in supporting the transition of vendor‑managed services to internal ownership while maintaining operational excellence. You'll bring a proactive, security‑first mindset, strong troubleshooting abilities, and the judgement to prioritize work based on business impact. Clear communication during incidents, thorough documentation, and adherence to established processes will be essential as you help ensure a resilient and well‑governed Azure environment.

You’ll have the autonomy to execute day-to‑day Azure operational activities within established processes, while identifying opportunities to improve platform performance, operational efficiency, security, governance, and cloud costs. More complex or high‑risk issues will be escalated to leadership and architecture teams as appropriate. Success in this role will be measured through platform availability, incident response and resolution, reduction of recurring issues, backup and recovery performance, patching and security compliance, cloud cost optimization, governance and tagging standards, the maturity of operational documentation and runbooks, and the successful transition of Azure services from external vendors to internal support.

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Azure compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Manage the full lifecycle of cloud resources, ensuring performance, availability, reliability, and governance standards.
• Maintain Azure subscriptions, resource groups, naming conventions, and tagging standards.

• Support and troubleshoot hybrid infrastructure, including connectivity, authentication, DNS, and networking.
• Assist with cloud migration and modernization initiatives across corporate, retail, and production environments.

• Monitor Azure environments and respond to incidents, service requests, and operational alerts.
• Perform patching, upgrades, maintenance, and root cause analysis while following ITSM incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Identify recurring issues and implement continuous operational improvements.

• Administer Microsoft Entra , Azure RBAC, and privileged access controls.
• Manage MFA, Conditional Access, PIM, access reviews, and least‑privilege security practices.

• Maintain Azure security posture through vulnerability remediation, Defender for Cloud, and governance policies.
• Enforce Azure Policy, resource organization, tagging, cost…