Request ID: 106515-1
Title: Azure Cloud Administrator Azure AI
Locations: Burlington, MA
Duration: 6+ Months
Pay Range: $50.00 - $53/Hour on W2/C2C (All inclusive)
We are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud Administrator with strong Azure Administration and Azure AI experience to design, implement, administer, secure, and support enterprise Azure environments. The role requires hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure, networking, security, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and Azure AI services including Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Services.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain enterprise Client Azure environments, including production cloud infrastructure.
- Deploy, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure resources and cloud services.
- Provide technical expertise on Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, Azure AI Search, and intelligent applications/agents.
- Support Azure customers and stakeholders through technical briefings, demos, POCs, solution design, and technical recommendations.
- Design and implement Azure infrastructure architectures supporting enterprise applications and data platforms.
- Administer Azure networking, including network diagnostics, VPN configuration, firewall policies, connectivity, and security controls.
- Develop and implement cloud security, monitoring, auditing, alerting, and compliance best practices.
- Support Azure Data Lake and data platform infrastructure, including networking and security architecture.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and automation using PowerShell, Python, and Ansible.
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Azure infrastructure and application deployments.
- Monitor Azure and on-premises environments for availability, performance, security, and integrity.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution within defined SLAs.
- Collaborate with application development, networking, security, database, and infrastructure teams.
- Conduct risk assessments for existing and new technology deployments and recommend remediation strategies.
- Establish Azure administration standards, procedures, tools, and operational processes.
- Recommend Azure migration strategies, enterprise architectures, integration approaches, and application infrastructure.
- Develop and demonstrate Azure AI POCs, optimize model performance, and support profiling and benchmarking activities.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and stakeholders regarding Azure AI adoption and cloud strategy.
- Build reusable technical assets, documentation, and best practices for Azure AI and cloud infrastructure.
- Identify technical blockers and recommend solutions related to security, scalability, performance, IP, and customer readiness.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to technical solution and opportunity planning.
Required Skills
- 10+ years of IT/Cloud infrastructure experience with strong Azure Administration experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Client Azure.
- Strong knowledge of Azure infrastructure, networking, security, compute, storage, databases, and servers.
- Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure AI Search, or related Azure AI technologies.
- Strong PowerShell scripting experience.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Python scripting.
- Experience with Ansible or similar automation tools.
- Strong knowledge of Azure networking, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, NSGs, routing, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting Azure Data Lake / Azure Data Platform infrastructure.
- Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud security, monitoring, auditing, alerting, and compliance.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
- Understanding of ITIL concepts is preferred.
AI Experience
- 3+ years of experience with AI/ML, intelligent applications/agents, AI Search, or enterprise AI solutions.
- Strong technical understanding of Azure AI/Cognitive Services and Azure OpenAI.
- Experience conducting AI demonstrations, POCs, technical briefings, or solution workshops.
- Ability to recommend AI integration strategies and enterprise architectures.