Cloud Azure Admin

Wipro; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro is hiring an Azure Administrator to lead landing-zone design, governance and onboarding in a Chennai-based team. You will manage VM lifecycles, storage policies, and image management, while supporting VNets, Private Link, ExpressRoute and AKS governance.

You will also operate Azure SQL/Cosmos DB, Azure AI endpoints, DNS and Key Vault, with emphasis on monitoring, backup and disaster recovery. 5–8 years of relevant experience expected.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in Azure administration and cloud governance.
• Experience designing Azure landing zones and subscription governance.
• Hands-on with incident management in ServiceNow and ITIL-aligned processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure landing-zone design, subscription governance and onboarding.
• Manage VM lifecycle, managed disks, snapshots and storage policies.
• Create, version-control golden images and patching via Azure Update Manager.
• Operate VNets, peering, routing, Private Link/Endpoints; support ExpressRoute/VPN.
• Manage Azure SQL and Cosmos DB incl. backup, scaling and tuning.
• Operate AKS clusters, node pools and namespace governance.
• Support Azure Functions, App Service, API Management and Service Bus.
• Support Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI endpoints, quotas and triage as needed.
• Administer Azure DNS, Key Vault, Entra ID users and MFA.
• Lead monitoring, log analytics, backup/DR activities.

Skills

Azure Admin

Azure VM management

Azure SQL

Cosmos DB

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell DSC

Ansible

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell DSC

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

• Lead Azure landing-zone design, subscription governance, onboarding and steady-state operations.
• Manage Azure VM lifecycle, Managed Disks, snapshots and storage lifecycle policies.
• Create, harden and version-control golden images; administer patching through Azure Update Manager.
• Operate VNets, subnets, peering, routing, Private Link and Private Endpoints; support ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway.
• Operate Azure SQL and Cosmos DB, including backup, patching, scaling and performance tuning.
• Operate AKS clusters, node pools and namespace or tenant governance.
• Support Azure Functions, App Service, API Management, Service Bus and Event Grid integrations.
• Support Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI endpoints, access, quotas and incident triage.
• Administer Azure DNS, Key Vault and Entra ID users, groups, roles, service principals and MFA.
• Lead Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, backup, restore and disaster-recovery activities.

Required Technical Expertise

• Azure VM, Managed Disks, Blob, Files, Load Balancer, VNet, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, AKS and App Service.
• Azure landing zones, Management Groups, subscriptions and Azure Policy.
• Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell DSC and Ansible.

Operations, Governance and Service Management

• Manage Incident, Problem and Change activities for P0-P3 tickets through ServiceNow.
• Deliver services in line with SLAs and lead root-cause analysis.
• Maintain tagging, quota, policy and subscription governance.
• Maintain runbooks, dashboards and automation assets.

Preferred Training and Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• ITIL V3 or V4 Foundation.

Mandatory Skills: Cloud Azure Admin.

Experience: 5-8 Years.

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