Sr Cloud Administration | Azure

External Description: What You'll Do The Cloud Ops Administrator is responsible for managing Teradata's as-a-Service offering on public cloud (Azure) Delivery responsibilities in the areas of cloud network administration, security administration, instantiation, provisioning, optimizing the environment, third party software support. Supporting the onsite teams with migration from On premise to Cloud for customers Implementing security best practices, and analyzing the partner compatibility What Makes You a Qualified Candidate Manage and support 24x7 VaaS environments for multiple customers Devise and implement security, operations best practices Implementing development, production environment for data warehousing cloud environment Backup, Archive and Recovery planning and execution of the cloud based data warehouses Throughput monitoring, load balancing, improving the overall system health by optimizing the key Azure resources Proactively monitor ticket queue and assignment of tasks to shift members Ensuring SLA are met during that shift- Acknowledgement & Update SLAs Incident/task prioritization during the shift Ensure all scheduled changes are implemented within the prescribed window First level of escalation for team members First level of help/support for team members Proactively highlight any incidents about to miss the SLA. Constantly monitor SLA Dashboard Ensure even distribution of workload within shift members Handling S1 during shift Shift leads would manage transition and share summary of all tickets being transferred Divert adhoc tasks to platform lead Basic Qualifications Engineering Graduate or 3-year Diploma Mandatory Skills / Attributes Minimum + years of IT experience. Minimum 5-6 years of Cloud hands-on experience (Azure). Expert in at least one of the supported public cloud platform (Azure). Cloud Certification. Should have basic leadership qualities. ITIL or other relevant certifications are desirable Service Now / ITSM tool day to day Operations Must be willing to provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotational basis with the team. Must be willing to travel - both short-term and long-term What You'll Bring Teradata/DBMS Experience Hands on experience with Teradata administration and strong understanding of Cloud capabilities and limitations Thorough understanding of Cloud Computing: virtualization technologies, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models and the current competitive landscape Implement and support new and existing customers on VaaS infrastructure. Thorough understanding of infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution Should have good knowledge of cloud services for Compute, Storage, Network and OS for at least one of the following cloud platforms : Azure Managed responsibilities as a Shift lead Should have experience in Enterprise VPN and Azure virtual LAN with data center Knowledge of monitoring, logging and cost management tools Hands-on experience with database architecture/modeling, RDBMS and No-SQL. Should have good understanding of data archive/restore policies. Teradata Basic If certified with VMware skills will be added advantage. Working experience in Linux administration, Shell Scripting. Working experience on any of the RDBMS like Oracle//DB2/Netezza/Teradata/SQL Server,MySQL. Others Excellent oral and written communication skills in the English language Good team player. Good presentation, communication skills