Azure SME

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 3 Month(s)

Skills

Azure SME
Microsoft 365
Entra
OpenAI

Job Details

Azure SME
Location: Bay Area, CA (Remote but need to be local to bay or Sacramento to go onsite a few times a month)
Duration: 3+ Months Contract


Description:

  • Deep hands on enterprise level Azure AND on-premises infrastructure experience leading teams to deliver the work (servers, storage, security, networking, and virtualization).
  • Deep technical knowledge with some experience leading people is paramount. This person should have both in-depth technical expertise and demonstrated experience in a hands-on leadership role, ideally as an IT Operations Manager or similar, though they will not have direct reports.
  • VMware for virtualization, Cisco routers, firewalls, and switches, Palo Alto firewalls, NetApp storage, Meraki switches and routers, windows server, cisco ucs, data center (racks, power, cabling), Active Directory, cisco and palo alto vpn services, disaster recovery, and Microsoft Azure.
  • On the Microsoft azure side, it would be things like virtualization (servers and storage), sentinel, defender for cloud and defender for endpoint, power platform, Entra (formerly known as azure active directory), virtual networks (including routing, gateways, security, and ip addressing), virtual machines and managed instances, app services, license management, subscription management, to name a few.
Top Skills:
  • Azure but should also know server infrastructure
  • Onprem and cloud specially with azure
  • Very technical who s very hands on.
Manage key IT services, including:
  • Cloud Services: Administer Microsoft Azure (including Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, and Synapse Analytics), the Power Platform (Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps), and other cloud-based tools to support innovation and operational efficiency.
  • Servers, Storage, and Virtualization: Oversee the migration of physical systems to virtualized and cloud environments while phasing out legacy infrastructure.
  • Collaboration Tools: Oversee Microsoft 365, Entra, and AI tools like OpenAI and chatbots to enhance productivity and automation.
  • Monitoring & Security: Implement and manage event, system, network, and security monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and compliance.
  • Disaster Recovery and Continuity: Manage data center operations, colocation services, and disaster recovery/business continuity plans to ensure operational resilience.
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