Microsoft Azure Cloud Consultant
- Full-time
- Department: Digital Development & Architecture
Company Description
We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.
We are an award-winning company that provide world-class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 is more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft, and AWS technologies.
Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.
Job Description
In this role, you will be working in a team of Version 1 and customer staff in the Irish public sector. The team manages a mature and growing Microsoft Azure cloud environment, with an interesting mix of ongoing life cycle management tasks as well as new green-field and cloud migration projects. The customer has been one of Version 1’s longest standing cloud customers and is key the success of Version 1. The customer is committed to a cloud first strategy and is growing their cloud footprint at >50% per annum.
As an Azure DevOps Consultant, you will work on a wide variety of project’s for the customer including public facing infrastructure of critical national importance.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Responding to Cloud team tickets and troubleshooting Azure issues
Implementation of Azure best practice architecture over IaaS, PaaS and SaaS infrastructures.
Performance Testing framework implementation
Azure scaling
Production Support (including out of hours support)
Release Management
Operational enhancements (build and release pipelines, Azure infrastructure, monitoring)
Azure Kubernetes Service strategic infrastructure
Identification, ownership and implementation of Continuous Service Improvements (CSIs) to improve team efficiency, streamline operation and reduce customer costs.
Qualifications
Experience of Azure CI/CD YAML Pipelines
Understanding of Azure API Management
Infrastructure as Code experience
Experience of Microsoft Power Platform or other low code solutions
Azure Active Directory, Policies and security experience.
Kubernetes and Docker experience
Azure DevOps experience
Microsoft Certifications preferable but not essential – The role is ideal for someone wishing to gain a wide range of Microsoft cloud certifications.
Experience in .Net, Python, Helm, SaFE, Jira, Confluence would be preferable but not essential.
Additional Information
Leon Cunningham
Talent Acquisition Team