GLO - Principal Cloud Systems Administrator (Systems Administrator VI)

About the role

The Principal Cloud Systems Administrator (Systems Administrator VI) serves as a senior technical authority responsible for defining enterprise infrastructure approaches, advancing operational maturity, and addressing the most complex, novel, or mission-critical systems challenges. This role retains hands-on involvement but focuses on the most complex troubleshooting, architectural initiatives, and high-risk changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise systems administration, including at least 3 years supporting Microsoft Azure and cloud-hosted business applications.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior administrator for Microsoft Azure environments, with direct responsibility for managing Azure-hosted applications and services.
• Experience administering and supporting Dynamics 365 environments, including environment configuration, identity integration, security roles, performance monitoring, and release management.
• Experience managing Azure infrastructure components such as virtual machines, networking, storage, identity services, and platform-based resources supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application and infrastructure issues within Azure-based or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience integrating Azure-hosted systems with on-premises infrastructure and other enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting or administering AWS environments is strongly preferred, particularly in hybrid or multi-cloud operational models.
• Experience serving as technical lead or subject matter expert for enterprise Dynamics 365 architecture, including governance, environment strategy, and customization oversight.
• Strong background in enterprise network engineering principles, including redundancy across connectivity paths ("pipe"), perimeter security architecture, and resilient infrastructure design.
• Experience developing and enforcing cloud governance standards, including resource organization, policy enforcement, cost controls, and operational maturity frameworks.
• Experience planning and executing regional failover and business continuity strategies for mission-critical cloud workloads.
• Demonstrated proficiency in automation and administrative scripting using PowerShell, CLI tools, or infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Experience implementing cloud security configurations, backup strategies, and disaster recovery practices within Azure environments.

Skills

• Microsoft Azure architecture principles, including compute, storage, networking, and identity services.
• Dynamics 365 administration models, environment management, and security configuration.
• Hybrid cloud integration practices connecting cloud platforms with on-premises systems.
• Advanced knowledge of Dynamics 365 solution architecture, Dataverse configuration, role-based security modeling, and integration with Azure AD/Entra ID.
• Enterprise cloud resiliency architecture principles, including network redundancy, perimeter defense, geo-redundant storage, identity federation, and business continuity planning.
• Cloud monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery methodologies.
• Multi-cloud operational concepts, including workload portability and service reliability considerations.
• Administering and optimizing Azure-based infrastructure and platform services.
• Supporting and maintaining Dynamics 365 environments in production settings.
• Designing and administering highly available Azure network and application architectures with redundancy across compute, storage, identity, and connectivity layers.
• Engineering secure integrations between Dynamics 365, Azure services, on-premises systems, and third-party platforms using APIs, middleware, and identity federation.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex cloud performance, identity, and integration issues.
• Implementing automation and scripting to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
• Managing access controls, role assignments, and secure configurations within Azure environments.
• Supporting cloud-based applications across Azure and, when applicable, AWS environments.