Infrastructure Administrator – Hybrid Cloud
W2 Contract
Seattle, WA (Hybrid Onsite)
ROLE SUMMARY
Seeking an experienced Infrastructure Administrator, with both passion and experience in the administration of Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) in multi-regional private datacenters. As an Infrastructure Administrator, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance, stability, and security of our Azure Local environment and its integration with Azure Cloud.
KEY DUTIES
- Provide hands-on break/fix support and diagnostics, as part of a larger Infrastructure Operations team, including the provisioning of new resources, managing after-hours maintenances to production hardware, as well as assisting in both performing penetration testing and with rapid remediation efforts of any findings, with a understood sense of urgency.
- Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot Azure Local hosts to ensure high-availability and optimal performance.
- Execute and monitor automated stack update process, perform manual high-risk patching and upgrades to maintain compliance and security standards for all workloads in the private datacenter.
- Implement and manage host-level security controls, including firewall rules and access controls.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to implement new features and functionality and ensure seamless interaction between Azure Local and Azure Cloud environments through Azure Arc
- Work from a pre-prioritized work-item backlog, executing assigned work-items in an organized, efficient, and expedited fashion, without deterrent.
- Create and maintain knowledgebase documentation, including operational runbooks, disaster recovery plans, and regulatory audit compliance evidencing.
- Participate in regulatory compliance (HITRUST/SOC2) evidencing for audits.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Administration
- Work with Azure Arc and/or System Center managed hypervisors (running Azure Local, vSphere, Hyper-V, or other Type1 HCI Hypervisor), preferred.
- Ability to demonstrate a strong understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure as a concept, with a preference for knowledge of Azure Local architecture, components, and topology.
- Prior professional experience with bare-metal Windows Server installation, management, troubleshooting, and performance optimization, in a datacenter environment.
- Familiarity with security best practices and common compliance standards at a high-level.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills required.
- Implementation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of complex environments.
