Azure Cloud and Hosting Management Specialist

Tampa, Florida

 RIT Solutions, Inc.
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Azure Cloud and Hosting Management Specialist

6 months C2H

Remote

Access and Security:
  • Management of VPN license, URL, certificate, etc
  • Manage Azure user and service AD groups
    • Maintain AD and service group lists / permissions
    • Request and track new account creation and existing account deletion
    • Request and help reset password, MFA
    • Help troubleshoot user access issue
  • Security patching
    • Manage and support monthly and ad-hoc patching releases
    • Review daily and monthly vulnerability reports
    • Coordinate with application teams for ad-hoc patching and test
  • Security reports for clients
Server Management:
  • Deploy and decommission servers
    • Work with application teams to set up new server specs and firewall rules
    • Verify new VM SKU, HW / SW, permissions, and firewall rules
    • Request and follow up decommission of redundant VMs
  • Server capacity analysis
    • Work with application teams to find growth trends
    • Evaluate data archive strategies and devices
    • Help develop archive plans
  • Overall monitoring
    • Follow up the status of unhealthy or non-responding servers
    • CPU and Memory utilization
    • SKU changes and disk expansion
    • Add to or remove from pools
    • Track and determine if reboot or recover a server is needed
  • Cost and inventory control / analysis
    • Keep track of server list
    • Log the server specification changes
Database (work with DBA):
  • Understanding of SQL clusters, database structures, and T-sql queries
  • Monitor resource utilization and trend: CPU, Memory, Disk
  • Support SKU resize and disk expansion
  • Configure and manage SQL Sentry monitoring tool
  • Backup and restore
    • Make sure the backups are performed according to SLA
    • Help and follow up backup and restore requests
  • Support cluster configuration and failover management
Network:
  • Keep track of URLs and SSL renewal
  • Follow up the monitoring of App gateway and WAF
  • Follow up URL down, access, or connection issues
Advanced Reporting:
  • Replication job issue support
    • Disk mount issues
    • Database in suspect mode
    • Logical page error
  • Help investigate unexpected RPT instance down and failover issue
  • Support the replication and ETL schedule adjustments for server maintenance and application release
Annual DR and penetration tests:
  • Disaster recovery tests for applications
  • Work with application teams to determine the servers, URLs, and databases
  • Facilitate meetings with Navisite and application teams to develop DR plan
  • Follow up DR tests and executive summary reports
  • Penetration test for applications
    • Work with Azure cloud service provider to conduct annual penetration test
    • Work with the application team and Azure cloud service provider to resolve any issues identified timely
Azure Cloud (support for applications):
  • Azure function apps
  • Azure services
  • Other
Other:
  • Track, escalate, and follow up all Azure cloud hosting tickets
  • Facilitate operational call with Azure cloud service provider (3 times a week)
  • Monitoring plan
    • Thresholds
    • Notifications
  • File share and Blob storage planning and monitoring
  • SOC II Type 2 audition support
  • Help server upgrade plan and execution
  • Support application new version release and upgrade
  • Manage and configure Azure portal dashboard monitoring
Explore cloud infrastructure and technology to enhance and improve hosting environment for applications
Date Posted: 19 May 2025
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