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 

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