Senior Azure Administrator

Version 1; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech services company in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled IT professional with over 7 years of experience. The ideal candidate will support multiple clients across various technologies, mentor junior team members, and manage projects effectively. Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and enterprise solutions design is essential. Excellent communication skills are required for client interactions and technical documentation. This role offers the chance to work within a structured IT service management environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years practical experience working in IT.
• Strong experience in designing, building, and supporting Enterprise solutions.
• Experience in full product lifecycle including Concept generation, Design, Build, and Support.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple clients across various technologies.
• Gather requirements and design solutions for clients.
• Serve as escalation point for major incidents.

Skills

Mentoring of junior team members

Excellent presentation skills

Project management skills

Strong verbal and interpersonal skills

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Kubernetes

SCCM

Citrix

VMware

AWS

Job description

Job Description

• Support multiple clients across multiple technologies.
• Mentoring of junior team members.
• Consult with customers across a cross-team environment.
• Documentation and development of designs, processes, and procedures.
• Work within a structured ITIL / ISO20000 IT Service Management environment.
• Works directly with client to gather requirements, design solutions, build proof of concepts and implement solutions.
• Excellent presentation and reporting skills arising from customer facing and on-site experience.
• Very strong verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required.
• Project management skills with experience in stakeholder and communications management
• Escalation points for major incidents / investigations
• Service Owner for several services e.g., Azure, Devops

Qualifications

• 7+ years practical experience working in IT.
• Strong, first-hand experience of designing, building, and supporting Enterprise solutions.
• Experience in the full product lifecycle including Concept generation, Design, Build and Support essential.
• Interpreting, understanding, and solving complex technical problems / incidents.
• Strategic thinker capable of looking at the ‘big picture’
• Ability to influence internal teams and customers.
• Consultancy / project delivery experience with client facing background
• Strong experience is both multi-servers, stand alone and clustered solutions.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Excellent troubleshooting skills required.

Technical Skills

• Specialist in 3 technical areas e.g., Kubernetes, SCCM, M365(InTune), WAF, Citrix, Storage, Azure
• Strong technical experience across Private cloud (VMWare / HyperV), Office365 and Citrix
• Excellent working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange Server
• Good broad technical knowledge across Public Cloud and Network (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Understanding of Cloud & infrastructure integration
• Strong experience in Cloud deployments (Public & Private)
• Disaster recovery and site replication solutions experience
• Experience on SAN / Storage solutions