Azure Platform Administrator Plano,United States

Permanent

Skills

Function Apps
azure platform
azure storage

Role: Azure Platform Administrator
Location: Plano, TX

Key Responsibilities

Azure platform operations (VMs, App Services, AKS, Storage, Networking)

Sizing, Capacity planning, Provisioning, configuration

Incident, problem, and change management via ITSM tools

Monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

Backup, disaster recovery, and resilience management

Security, RBAC, Key Vault, and policy enforcement

Design & integrate - RBAC, Endpoints, NSG, DNS, Proxy, Firewall, Storage, Compute, Scheduling

Performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization

Automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Logic Apps

Documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge transfer

Deep knowledge and hand on experience in Azure Services

Compute: VMs, VMSS, AKS, App Services

Storage: Blob, ADLS, Files

Networking: VNets, NSGs, Load Balancer, Firewall, App Gateway

App & Integration: API Connections, API Management, Function Apps

Security: RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy

Data: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB

DevOps: Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Cost : Cost management and FinOps exposure

Familiarity with vector search and semantic retrieval for retail use cases

Expertise in data privacy and compliance in consumer-facing environments

Good experience in end-to-end implementation of data warehouse and data marts

Strong understanding of Data Warehousing concepts of Data Vault, Dimensional modelling, OLAP design

Extensive experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins

Experience designing and implementing complex solutions for distributed systems

Experience in leading and mentoring teams

Required Qualifications:

At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology

Strong experience of Azure platform administration

Strong knowledge of Azure compute, network, and storage

Preferred Qualifications:

ITIL-based support experience

PowerShell / Azure CLI scripting

Troubleshooting and RCA skills

Experience in Relational Modeling, Dimensional Modeling and Modeling of Unstructured Data

Familiarity with log and monitoring solutions

Experience in utilizing development containers, unit testing/code quality review/linting - standard best practice

Good understanding of Agile software development frameworks

Strong communication and Analytical skills

Ability to work in teams in a diverse, multi-stakeholder environment comprising of Business and Technology teams

Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment

Experience with Generative AI frameworks: OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain

Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI integration standards.

Experience and detailed knowledge with Master Data Management, ETL, Data Quality, metadata management, data profiling, micro-batches, streaming data loads