The Sr. Cloud administrator’s role is to ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of the in-house information systems that support core organizational functions. This is achieved by monitoring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all software and associated operating systems. The Sr. Cloud administrator will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments. This individual will also mentor and guide the Systems Engineer staff.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems
• Develop and maintain cloud solutions following best practices
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions following company security policies and best practices in cloud security
• Managing Dell Azure, AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure 
• Administration and monitoring Backup solution.
• Advanced knowledge of operating system fundamentals for Microsoft Windows and Linux, networking, and security
• Extensive experience with scripting and automation.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Administration troubleshooting and deployment of Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022 Active Directory environments.
• Administrate AD Sites, Organizational Unit (OU), Users and Groups, and Group Policy management.
• Administrate, implement, and configure and troubleshoot Active Directory, AD Connect, , Microsoft Azure features, AWS infrastructure and Google cloud infrastructure.
• Managing and troubleshooting in Microsoft 365: Security, Compliance, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online 
• Administrate Azure AD, Azure ATP, Conditional Access 
• Virtualization technologies: VMware vSphere, vCenter and Hyper-V
• Participate in the administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system: update agents, and scripts, respond to alerts, monitor the dashboard, and periodic system review.
• Document maintenance for all system infrastructure
• Remote monitoring and management of system alerts and notifications
• Communication with clients as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages.
• Perform system monitoring, verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, review system and application logs, and verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Continual maintenance of security, including backup and redundancy strategies
• Consistently provide 2nd level support
• Communication as a liaison with vendors and other IT personnel to resolve issues
• Administrate external Domains and DNS 
• Understanding DevOps and CI/CD - Experience with DevOps methods and CI/CD pipelines