Senior Azure Administrator & Platform Automation Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Leinster; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Profit Share

Career progression programs

Flexible/remote working

Private healthcare

Life Assurance

Employee discounts

Gym discounts

Education assistance (AWS, Microsoft,

Annual Excellence Awards

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a Senior Azure Administrator to provide senior-level operational and technical support across the Platform Azure team, servicing UK and ROI customers. The role covers Azure, hybrid infrastructure, on-premises virtualization, backup platforms, automation, monitoring, security and service management.

You will act as a senior escalation point, maintain documentation and drive improvements while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience IT infrastructure, managed services, or cloud operations.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Microsoft Azure environments in production.
• Hands-on experience with on-premises infrastructure including ESXi, VMware and Commvault backup/recovery.
• Experience handling incidents, problems, changes, requests, and service improvements for enterprise customers.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across cloud, identity, server, networking, monitoring, and security domains.
• Solid ITIL practices knowledge and experience in a controlled managed service environment.
• Excellent communication with customers, technical teams, service managers and stakeholders.
• Experience producing documentation, technical notes, and customer-facing updates.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise workload, manage escalations, and support multiple customers.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and sharing knowledge.
• Azure AZ-104 or similar certifications desirable; broader cloud/security/automation certs advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior Azure administration and infrastructure support across multiple managed service customers.
• Escalation point for Azure, Windows, identity, networking, monitoring, backup, and infrastructure incidents and requests.
• Maintain Azure services including VMs, storage, networking, AD, AVD, Monitor, backup and security controls.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot, design solutions, and implement improvements.
• Support hybrid and on-prem environments including VMware, ESXi, Commvault, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, Office 365.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, designs, support procedures and knowledge articles.
• Operate within ITIL and ISO20000 processes (incident, problem, change, request).
• Contribute to automation, IaC, standardisation, patching, monitoring and operational improvements.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge across Platform Azure team.
• Provide clear customer-facing updates, technical explanations, and reporting for incidents and changes.

Skills

Azure AD

Active Directory

RBAC

Conditional Access

Privileged Access

Windows Server

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Commvault

Azure Monitor

PowerShell

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Azure Virtual Desktop

Education

Azure certification AZ-104

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Splunk

Job description

Version 1 is seeking a Senior Azure Administrator to provide senior-level operational and technical support across the Platform Azure team, servicing UK and ROI customers. The role covers Azure, hybrid infrastructure, on-premises virtualization, backup platforms, automation, monitoring, security and service management.

You will act as a senior escalation point, maintain documentation and drive improvements while mentoring junior engineers.