The Azure Cloud Administrator will help to employ technical expertise in the design, implementation, testing, and ongoing support of the Data Lake cloud infrastructure.
The Cloud Administrator will specifically be responsible for developing Network and Security best practices for the Azure Data Platform.
Be a trusted advisor to our top customers, helping them understand and incorporate AI accelerators into their overall cloud strategy by recommending migration paths, integration strategies, and application architecture that incorporate Azure Cognitive services / Azure Open AI.
Demonstrate how Azure AI is differentiated, highlighting the power of accelerators by working with customers on POCs, demonstrating features, optimizing model performance, profiling, and benchmarking.
Build repeatable assets to enable other customers and internal teams.
Influence Azure AI strategy by leveraging Cognitive Services, Search and Azure Open AI models by advocating enterprise customer requirements.
Address security and IP, performance, scalability, and customer readiness.
Engages in conversation with customers and collaborates with account and partner teams to drive and qualify new opportunities, understand key technical objections, and resolve technical blockers.
Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Minimum 9 years of experience in Azure administration, with proficiency in managing Azure resources and services.
Expertise in Azure infrastructure as code, administer, and maintain production platforms to meet SLAs, and creating CI/CD Pipelines for deployment.
Strong knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) implementation and management.
Experience in incident management, monitoring, backup and recovery, and security and compliance practices in Azure environments.
Familiarity with Azure DevOps for automation, deployment, and collaboration.