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Need - Azure Cloud Consultant
REMOTE
12+ Months Contract

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
• Advanced knowledge of security principles and configurations for Azure, Nutanix, M365 and AVD
• Advanced knowledge of Virtualization platforms, in particular VMware, Nutanix and AVD
• Advanced knowledge of Cloud architecture, in particular Azure and AWS
• Advanced knowledge of M365 architecture including Purview
• Advanced knowledge of M365 Purview
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Defender/Sentinel
• Solid knowledge of Azure networking design principles.
• At least 2 years technical implementation experience with storage technologies (SAN, FCP/ISCSI and NAS)
• Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
• Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to:  ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)

DELIVERABLES OR TASKS
• Migrate workloads to M365.
• Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMWare environment to Microsoft Azure.
• Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects to Nutanix environments.
• Replace remote office VMWare virtual environments with Nutanix systems.
• Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.
• Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.
• Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
• Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.
• Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.
• Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures.
• Coordinate administrative, maintenance, and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.
• Lead, plan, develop, implement, and participate in project design, system administration, maintenance, and support essential to the mission of State Fund.
• Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks.
• Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.
• Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.
• Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.
• Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.
• Lead design discussions, research, identify, and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.
• Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
• Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventative measures.
• Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.
• Participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business system servers.
• Provide after-hours maintenance and support, whenever required.
• Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.