Senior Azure Cloud Administrator

GLORY; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Senior Azure Cloud Administrator to manage Azure resources and coordinate cloud migrations. The role demands strong technical skills in Azure technologies, extensive experience in hybrid environments, and excellent communication abilities. Ideal candidates should have relevant certifications and a proactive approach to problem-solving. This position offers a competitive salary and a full-time commitment.

Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified and highly skilled in managing Azure environments.
• Experience in systems engineering and hybrid on-prem/cloud setups.
• Strong technical documentation skills and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage cloud resources on Azure.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure system security and reliability.
• Lead the migration of on-prem systems to Azure securely.

Skills

Azure technologies and services

On-premises and cloud infrastructure

Backup, Restore, Recovery strategies

Infrastructure as code

Active Directory and Azure AD

PowerShell skills

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

4+ years in Azure Cloud role

6+ years in systems engineering

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Cisco routing and firewalls

Job description

Senior Azure Cloud Administrator

Department: IS - Service Delivery

Employment Type: 永久 - 全职

Location: Malaysia/Kuala Lumpur

Reporting To: Head of Infrastructure and Security Applications

Compensation: RM10,000 - RM21,000 / 月

Description

We are seeking a Microsoft Certified, highly skilled Senior Systems Administrator to play a key role in the design, development, and documentation of our on-premises and cloud-based Microsoft Azure environment. This subject matter expert position requires deep technical expertise in AD, Azure AD, Intune/Entra, Microsoft Defender, SaaS administration, endpoint security, and cloud automation, along with a knowledge of networking.

This position will work closely with the Solutions Architect to ensure systems and technologies are aligned with the group strategy ensuring alignment, scalability and adoption of best practices across the IT estate.

This role forms part of a re-alignment of technical skills within the team, whereby this position will take a lead role in our ongoing journey to the cloud. The position is hands-on, focusing on architecting, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions while ensuring compliance with enterprise change control processes and regulations. Strong technical documentation skills are essential coupled with experience in network security would be desirable. The role will form part of our existing Infrastructure team, and the successful candidate must be approachable, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams across GGS and the group will be key to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage cloud resources (e.g., virtual machines, storage, databases) using Microsoft Azure.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of Azure-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Solutions Architect, Development, Operations, and security teams.
• Lead migration of on prem systems, data and workloads securely to Azure, ensuring compliance and performance standards.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Azure environments, responding to incidents and identifying areas for improvement.
• Contribute to automation and orchestration efforts to streamline cloud operations.
• Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid IT environments integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services.
• Ensure security best practices across hybrid environments, including encryption, and compliance with organizational policies
• Perform configuration and setup activities such as developing and implementing templates for server builds, setting permissions and rules (e.g., privileged account access management/PIM), work with Network and Applications personnel to assist with system/application/services into a cloud platform.
• Monitor and enhance the security of current and future Azure environments and evaluate scaling and capacity requirements.
• Stay current with Azure updates, emerging technologies, and industry trends to recommend improvements
• Operating Systems knowledge, especially Windows Server and Unix.
• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to servers, systems, OS’s and databases, ensuring processes are documented and auditable

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Exceptional understanding of Azure technologies and services (including Azure VMs, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Storage) and experience in deploying and configuring cloud-based solutions
• Strong knowledge of on-premises and cloud infrastructure (Azure, Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, Active Directory, EntraID).
• Strong knowledge of Backup, Restore, Recovery and high availability strategies for Microsoft Azure and on-prem environments.
• Strong knowledge of IaaS and PaaS.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform; CloudFormation and ARM a plus).
• Strong understanding and background of working with a complex Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP and the requirement of strictly following standards, procedures, and processes.
• Advanced knowledge of DHCP, Kerberos and Windows Authentication.
• Knowledge of network protocols such as: DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SFTP.
• Knowledge of Cisco network equipment/routing, switching, and firewalls would be beneficial.
• Excellent PowerShell skills.
• Exposure to other cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud) is a plus.
• Previous experience with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Solarwinds).
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Assist with mentoring junior team members.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Education and Qualifications

Education Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ year experience in a Microsoft Azure Cloud Administrator or Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer role
• 6+ years of experience in systems engineering, with a focus on hybrid on-premises and cloud environments.

Qualifications:

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Azure concepts and functionality, and Azure/AD administration.
• Microsoft or Azure Certifications Azure Solutions Architect; Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator, or MCSE, CompTIA, Server+, Network+,
• Thorough Understanding of ITIL or other IT service management frameworks.

GLORY SPIRITS

The Glory Spirits & Behaviours reflect the values and behaviours that are critical to the ongoing success of Glory and as such represent the foundations of our behaviour globally to lead us to realise our mission:

Value Creation - strive to create value for customers

Self-Starter - understand the objectives of your own work and are proactive in achieving goals

Collaboration - respect diversity and create a culture of collaboration to work with each other to achieve a common goal

Integrity - understand Glory’s mission and act with responsibility and pride to realise achievement and act and behave with high integrity and a strong sense of ethics

Own Growth -leverage our own talent and achieve personal development by adopting a broader perspective, looking beyond our own work.

Glory believes in equal opportunity for all qualified persons and will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, colour, religion, marital status, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Third Party Agencies

Unsolicited resumes will not be accepted by Glory. Should an agency choose to send unsolicited resumes, Glory reserves the right to review such resumes but will not be held liable for any fees/charges associated with a candidate hire except where a formal written agreement is in place between Glory and the Agency to source candidates for a specific role.