Senior Azure Cloud Administrator

Overview

GLORY WP. Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We are seeking a Microsoft Certified, highly skilled Senior Systems Administrator to play a key role in the design, development, and documentation of our on-premises and cloud-based Microsoft Azure environment. This subject matter expert position requires deep technical expertise in AD, Azure AD, Intune / Entra, Microsoft Defender, SaaS administration, endpoint security, and cloud automation, along with a knowledge of networking. This role works closely with the Solutions Architect to ensure systems and technologies are aligned with the group strategy, ensuring alignment, scalability and adoption of best practices across the IT estate. The role is hands-on, focusing on architecting, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions while ensuring compliance with enterprise change control processes and regulations.

Strong technical documentation skills are essential and experience in network security would be desirable. The role forms part of our existing Infrastructure team and requires collaboration with cross-functional teams across GGS and the group.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage cloud resources (e.g., virtual machines, storage, databases) using Microsoft Azure.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of Azure-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Solutions Architect, Development, Operations, and security teams.
• Lead migration of on-premises systems, data and workloads securely to Azure, ensuring compliance and performance standards.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Azure environments, responding to incidents and identifying areas for improvement.
• Contribute to automation and orchestration efforts to streamline cloud operations.
• Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid IT environments integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services.
• Ensure security best practices across hybrid environments, including encryption, and compliance with organizational policies.
• Perform configuration and setup activities such as developing and implementing templates for server builds, setting permissions and rules (e.g., privileged account access management / PIM).
• Work with Network and Applications personnel to assist with system / application / services into a cloud platform.
• Monitor and enhance the security of current and future Azure environments and evaluate scaling and capacity requirements.
• Stay current with Azure updates, emerging technologies, and industry trends to recommend improvements.
• Design and implement disaster recovery and data archiving policies and procedures to ensure data protection and integrity.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to servers, systems, OSs and databases, ensuring processes are documented and auditable.

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