Azure Stack HCI

The Azure SME implements effective infrastructure solutions and will be responsible for planning, designing, as well as supporting deployment efforts for our clients for the delivery of project-based assignments including proof-of-concept, analysis, design/architecture, deployment and support. 

Key Responsibilities 

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

The Azure SME is primarily responsible for: 

Azure Incident Management –

This support role will sit behind a team of 1st and second line support teams and will be a 3rd line resolver for support tickets coming through from customers relating to the platforms, sharing knowledge with L1 & L2 Teams, ensuring any ticket achieve SLA and providing technical leadership to junior member of the team.

Service Delivery Automation –

A modern support operation needs to be driven by automation. It is expected that as part of this role that the engineer will be looking to provide automated workflows or scripts to solve common issues with customer environments; Operational Procedure Documentation – The support engineer will be tasked with ensuring that all support operation procedures.

Provide escalation management –

The support is responsible for ensuring all technical issues received from clients are effectively escalated to either the professional service team or to Microsoft premier support to ensure a resolution can be found for customers.

 Assists knowledge management –

The Engineer will lead in maintaining an environment conducive to exchanging and sharing knowledge internally.

Requirements

Microsoft Technical Skills:

  Microsoft Azure Architecture Skills (AZ-300 & AZ-301) /Azure Networking (Az-700)

·       Minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure solutions 

·       Minimum of 4 years of experience in Azure public cloud

·       Minimum of 1 years of experience in in Azure Stack HCI.

·       Minimum of 1 years of experience in Azure stack hardware management.

·       Minimum of 1 years of experience in Azure Monitor.

·       Minimum of 4 years of experience deploying cloud-based infrastructure solutions 

·       Strong troubleshooting experience in Azure Infra and Azure network.

·       Experienced with ITIL process.

·     Deployment of Azure Active Directory with on-premises Active Directory integration 

·     Integration of network-to-network connectivity with Azure Virtual Network Gateways, ExpressRoute, and vendor-specific VPN appliances 

·     Deployment of Azure networking, load balancing, and security technologies 

·     Deployment of storage services on Microsoft Azure 

·     Deployment of virtual machines on Microsoft Azure 

·     Migration of existing infrastructure resources to Microsoft Azure 

·     Implementation of locally-redundant and geographically-redundant solutions 

·     Deployment of Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery services 

·     Understands Role Based Access Controls and Identity Access Management policies 

·     Experience with network planning, design, and management 

·     Experience with network security concepts and practices 

·     Experience with Microsoft Windows Server troubleshooting.

·     Experience with Microsoft SQL Server or equivalent relational database software 

·     Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning 

·     Demonstrates strong customer service orientation and ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment 

·     Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills 

·     Demonstrates strong organizational and time management skills 

·     Desire to continuously learn new and emerging technologies 

Desirable Skills:

·     Docker Skills

·     Azure Kubernetes skills

·     Azure Devops