Azure Platform Administrator

Location: Rartian, NJ (onsite)

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Azure Platform Administrator with 8 years of strong hands-on exposure to Azure cloud platform operations. The role will be responsible for managing, securing, monitoring, and optimizing Azure infrastructure services across enterprise environments. This position requires close collaboration with other platform, cloud, data engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to ensure stable, scalable, and compliant platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Azure platform services such as virtual machines, storage accounts, virtual networks, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, and identity access components.
• Manage Azure subscriptions, resource groups, role-based access control policies, tagging standards, cost controls, and governance guardrails.
• Support Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs, libraries, secrets, access permissions, and workspace-level configuration.
• Implement and maintain secure connectivity patterns including VNets, private endpoints, firewalls, managed identities, service principals, and storage access controls.
• Monitor platform health, performance, availability, usage, and cost trends; identify optimization opportunities and implement preventive controls.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to support infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, deployment standards, and environment management across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Troubleshoot Azure and Databricks platform issues related to access, compute, storage, networking, job execution, and service availability.
• Maintain documentation, operational runbooks, access review processes, incident response procedures, and platform best practices.

Requirements

• 8 years of hands-on experience in Azure platform administration or cloud infrastructure operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure certification such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure Security Engineer Associate is preferred.
• Databricks certification or formal training in Databricks platform administration, data engineering, or Lakehouse architecture is an added advantage.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, documentation, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working in enterprise support models, production operations, change management, incident management, and compliance-driven environments.

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure administration including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, security, backup, and identity services.
• Good working knowledge of Azure Databricks platform administration including workspace management, cluster policies, compute configuration, access controls, and job monitoring.
• Experience with Azure Active Directory or Microsoft Entra ID, IAM, RBAC, managed identities, service principals, conditional access concepts, and secure authentication patterns.
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, VPN or ExpressRoute, DNS, and firewall configurations.
• Experience with Azure storage services, especially ADLS Gen2, storage account security, access keys, SAS, OAuth, and integration with Databricks.
• Understanding of data platform concepts such as Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, data governance, lineage, catalog/schema/table permissions, and secure data access patterns.
• Hands-on exposure to automation and scripting using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Ability to analyze incidents, perform root cause analysis, tune platform performance, optimize cloud costs, and drive operational improvements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan covering medical, dental, and vision.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Life insurance.
• Vacation time, sick leave, and paid holidays.
• Paid paternity and maternity leave.

Pay

The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salary target for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, job level, and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Depending on the position, other forms of compensation may be provided, such as an annual performance-based bonus, sales incentive pay, and other forms of bonus or variable compensation.