Azure Platform Administrator

The Associates have an exciting opportunity for a Azure Platform Administrator to join our Technical Services team within the Chief Information Office. The Azure Platform Administrator will provide both project management, engineering and guidance on technical aspects of developments and modifications to IT systems. You will ensure that existing and planned information systems and infrastructure are compatible with relevant company technical strategies, policies and standards. This is a Hybrid role with 2 days a week in the office which is close to London Bridge Station. Responsibilities: As our Azure Platform Administrator, some of your day to day duties will include... * Implement and document solutions that take advantage of internal and external service’s infrastructure directly and indirectly working with managed service partners and ensure service-take on to the infrastructure managed services * Translate business and IT requirements into practical terms that can be implemented by existing or new technology * Prepare and maintain realistic project, quality, and risk plans and monitors performance against each plan, providing reports to customer/user, management and senior management as required. * Develop and maintain the direction of the technical infrastructure reflecting developments in technology and products, current best practice, responding to new business demands and opportunities and in line with the company’s IT strategy and the overall technical architecture. * Provide expert advice, support and guidance to the systems development groups regarding the appropriate infrastructure required to support new developments and to act as technical infrastructure design authority on development projects. * Provide technical Quality Assurance on all proposals for changes or enhancements to the infrastructure environment to ensure compliance with standards and consistency with the overall technical architecture and strategy * Provide structured and documented evaluations of new technologies and products required as part of the company’s systems infrastructure to determine how these can be used to support the business objectives. * Provide appropriate reporting to IT management and business units regarding progress on technical projects and any issues associated with the environment. * Identify opportunities for optimising the set-up and configuration of systems and networks in order to improve the level of service provided to the business either through increased reliability, performance or functionality. Qualifications: Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have: In-depth hands-on technical expertise in the following Windows environments: * * Azure on-premise server re-platforming journey end-to-end * Windows Server OS upgrades – application analysis and upgrade dependencies and resolutions * Azure Cloud IaaS/PaaS services and On-premise VMs and backup/recovery and security * ARM Templates & PowerShell utilising Azure DevOps repositories * Custom Azure RBAC policies and applying resource policies and standards * Azure reservations and Azure Partner CSP service * Web technologies and IIS * Active Directory and Azure Active Directory * Practical knowledge of: * CI/CD pipelines using Team City/Octopus & Azure DevOps pipelines * Network and Firewall/WAF technologies * MS SQL IaaS/PaaS Database administration and technologies * Desktop applications and infrastructure * Experienced Windows systems administrator * Experience of working with Virtualisation and SAN technologies * Working experience of IT standards and codes of conduct * Working knowledge of Change Management and Service Delivery Industry best practice (e.g.ITIL) * Knowledge of Information Security Industry best practice (e.g. ISO27000) * Proven experience of the application of technology to business related initiatives and problems. * Experience of formalised project management methodologies and techniques and some project management skills. Working knowledge of Change Management and Service Delivery Industry best practice (e.g.ITIL)