Azure Administrator

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Azure Administrator

The Azure Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and support of K 's Microsoft Azure environment. This role supports both infrastructure and platform services, ensuring cloud resources are deployed, managed, and optimized in alignment with established governance, security, and operational standards. The ideal candidate is a motivated cloud professional who enjoys Azure administration, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous learning.

Working closely with Cloud Architects, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Application teams, this individual will help maintain a secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud platform while supporting cloud adoption and operational excellence initiatives across the organization.

• Administer and support Azure subscriptions, management groups, resource groups, and cloud resources.
• Support onboarding of new workloads into Azure following approved architecture, security, and governance standards.
• Deploy, configure, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot Azure IaaS and PaaS services.
• Perform routine health checks, maintenance activities, and operational support tasks.
• Monitor cloud environments and respond to alerts, incidents, and service disruptions.
• Support backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Assist with patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Azure resources.
• Support operational readiness and transition of new Azure services into production support.

• Support and maintain Azure-hosted applications and cloud-native services.
• Partner with application teams to deploy, monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot Azure workloads.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery solutions for Azure platform services.
• Ensure Azure services are deployed and managed in accordance with approved architecture and operational standards.

• Support implementation and maintenance of Azure Policy, Management Groups, RBAC controls, and resource governance standards.
• Monitor cloud environments for compliance with organisational security and operational requirements.
• Assist with remediation of findings identified through vulnerability assessments, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and security reviews.
• Support audit, compliance, and security assessment activities.
• Promote adoption of Azure security and governance best practices.

• Support operational practices aligned with Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework principles, including reliability, security, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation.
• Participate in environment reviews and implementation of recommendations that improve platform maturity and operational effectiveness.

• Develop and maintain automation solutions utilizing Power Shell, Azure CLI, and infrastructure‑as‑code methodologies.
• Support deployment automation, operational efficiency initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational support processes.

• Monitor Azure resource utilisation and consumption.
• Identify and support implementation of cost optimisation opportunities.
• Assist with operational and financial reporting related to cloud resource usage.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Ensure documentation supports operational readiness, governance requirements, and audit compliance.
• Promote consistency through adoption of Azure administration standards and best practices.

• Provide Tier 2 operational support for Azure services and cloud platforms.
• Participate in incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis activities.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, application, and project teams.
• Support cloud projects, production deployments, and after‑hours maintenance activities when required.