Job Title: Azure Systems Administrator
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Job Type: Contract
Overview
The client is in search of a Systems Administrator to play a key role in assisting the OIT in the oversight, management, troubleshooting, and execution of cloud services and platforms to support infrastructure, applications, data, and other business needs. The duties of this position can be broad and may include such tasks as adding and removing individuals from the list of authorized users, archiving files, overseeing password protection and other security measures, and monitoring usage of shared resources. Architect, design, facilitate, lead, coordinate, and direct technology initiatives on multiple fronts across a variety of disparate areas within the organization. This could include Infrastructure administration, application development, data management & analytics, cybersecurity, external hosting, identity and access management, infrastructure, network, security hardening, privacy, and compliance. Oversight and management of Microsoft 365 environments and other Microsoft platforms, identity platforms, and a multi-cloud environment. Selects, develops, integrates and implements network management applications for Internet components. The Systems Administrator will be responsible for working on projects, systems, and/or issues of medium to high complexity and will be expected to provide daily operations support, maintenance, and administration for Servers. This position requires ownership of complex issues in order to support the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support and expand infrastructure.
- Coordinate server configuration and administration with multiple parties.
- Make recommendations for future server and software upgrades.
- Monitor systems and applications to ensure security, availability, and performance.
- Establish systems by evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency; planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures; establishing connections and firewalls.
- Maintains network and systems performance by performing systems monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting systems and application problems; escalating problems to vendor.
- Build and manage relationships in a matrixed environment.
- Find opportunities to refactor solutions to obtain better performance, cost, and efficiency.
- Create and manage Azure DevOps projects, git repositories, and pipelines.
- Oversee and configure Azure DevOps organizational settings.
- Recommend and assist with the building and hosting of complex application solutions.
- Understand, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure and/or other cloud services.
- Understand, deploy, and manage Microsoft Power Platform.
- Understand and manage
- Microsoft 365 services.
- Supports other IT staff, including developers.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience and Skills
- 2 – 3 years experience with: Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022.
- 2 – 3 years IIS Administration.
- 2 – 3 years of network communications, including TCP/IP and DNS Samba/CIFS file sharing and NTFS permissions.
- 2 – 3 years of strong professional experience in Microsoft Azure cloud systems is highly desired.
- 2 – 3 years of experience with other cloud providers, such as AWS or GCP is highly desired.
- 2 – 3 years of professional experience in the administration of Microsoft software is highly desired.
- 3 – 5 years of IT work experience in infrastructure/network environments in systems operations, support, maintenance, and administration.
- 3 – 5 years of professional experience supporting middleware such as API Management, IT Service Automation tools, and batch job services is highly desired.
- 5 – 8 years of professional experience in information systems engineering or another related field is required
