Cloud and Systems Administrator

Corporate Technologies is a leading provider of managed IT solutions to businesses and institutions in Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, Southern California, Kansas, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and New Jersey. With over 40 years of experience and more than 200 employees, Corporate Technologies provides Fortune 500 level IT support to small and medium sized businesses. We offer unique IT solutions, including managed IT services, cloud services, staffing, voice and data systems, storage and virtualization, consulting, and networking solutions.

If you are looking to break into the IT industry this may be a great opportunity for you. We would love for you to bring your skills and be part of our team!

POSITION SUMMARY:
Corporate Technologies seeking a Cloud and Systems Administrator who is responsible for the administration, security, reliability, and modernization of CT's infrastructure, Microsoft cloud environment, endpoints, and enterprise applications.

The role will support the current hybrid environment while helping CT transition toward a cloud-first architecture centered around Microsoft Entra , Intune, Microsoft 365, Defender XDR, automation, and modern endpoint management.

Job Duties:

• Administer Microsoft 365, Entra , Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and One Drive.
• Support Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and remaining hybrid infrastructure.
• Administer and support enterprise business applications, permissions, SSO, integrations, and vendor escalations.
• Expand Microsoft Intune for endpoint management, configuration, compliance, application deployment, and Windows Autopilot.
• Help transition devices and identity services from traditional Active Directory toward Entra .
• Implement and manage Conditional Access, MFA, passwordless authentication, and identity security.
• Implement and administer Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, and related Microsoft security technologies.
• Improve system uptime, monitoring, redundancy, backup, recovery, and overall availability.
• Identify infrastructure and applications that can be migrated, consolidated, or replaced with cloud services.
• Automate repetitive administration using Power Shell, Microsoft Graph, APIs, and other automation tools.
• Troubleshoot escalated infrastructure, application, identity, endpoint, and Microsoft cloud issues.
• Maintain technical documentation and participate in change management and disaster recovery planning.
• Coordinate and collaborate with network engineering, business application, and database administration functions to ensure availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate infrastructure (hardware/software) to meet business demands.
• Managing Windows Server and Domain Services lifecycle to ensure maximum security of our systems and data.
• Leading the design and creation of a Windows infrastructure refresh while coaching Service Desk personnel for cross training opportunities and skills overlap. This will include updating/migrating Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP servers, certificate services, and other core Windows services that are refreshed.
• Evaluating operating system and application software and security updates and applying these updates in a promotional process from lower environments to production.
• Maintain and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company's disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing.
• Document the company's existing systems architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives.
• Monitoring servers, services, processes, and application-level performance and availability and…