ONTELLUS Cloud Administrator Salary in the United States

Description

The IT/Cloud Solutions Administrator will design, deploy, and migrate systems for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. The Cloud Administrator is responsible for the identification and selection of appropriate cloud services based on requirements and constraints, has deep subject matter expertise, and can evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of company’s strategic business plans.
• Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, development, and the operations/business units.
• Build out new, and manage existing cloud infrastructure
• Assist in managing on premise infrastructure during the migration to cloud
• Assist in building out hybrid cloud environment
• Document and develop in-depth knowledge of company’s existing IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
• Create Best practice documentation to be leveraged by the Infrastructure team
•  Develop and manage an IT cloud infrastructure capacity plan.
• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a cloud technology standards policy.
• Conduct research on emerging cloud technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
• Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
• Design, develop, and implementation of end-to-end IT cloud integrated systems including tiered security architecture.
• Implement Best practices around Cloud Security - Implement Security and Protecting Identities, including: Encrypting data in transit, at rest and in use. Protecting Azure AD accounts against compromise. And reducing the attack surface of all Azure resources. 
• Develop and execute test plans to check IT cloud infrastructure and systems technical performance. Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement.
• Develop, test, deploy and document standard templates for system builds within the environment.
• Build relationships with software development and engineering teams to gain an understanding of application architectures and required functionality
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve problems affecting cloud systems performance, efficiency, and availability.
• Monitor resources and log analytics both on premise and in the cloud
• Implement and manage storage both on premise and in the cloud
• Understands core business and recommends changes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of products as well as suggesting new products, processes, or tools to improve the core business. 
• Is a point of contact for team member questions, issues, and escalations on projects.
• Regular attendance and timeliness 
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

▪    Experience creating and managing a hybrid cloud environment
▪    Minimum of 5 years Experience managing Azure environments
▪    Minimum of 5 years experience managing and deploying O365 environments
▪    Proficiency scripting languages such as PowerShell or bash.
▪    Exposure to automated build and deployment tools.
▪    Work experience with cloud information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.
▪    Awareness of end-user computing and collaborative technologies.
▪    Experience with System performance tuning
▪    Experience with Exchange, Active Directory, MS Server, ADFS, Hyper V, VMWare
▪    Experience setting up and managing both converged and hyperconverged infrastructure is a plus
▪    Experience with Fortinet Networking is a plus
▪    Experience with Security, identity, and access management: IAM in the cloud.
▪    Experience with Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
▪    Information and application security concepts including public key encryption, remote access, access credentials, and certificate-based authentication.
▪    Effective organizational and time management skills.
▪    Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with internal and external contacts.

Education & Experience
▪    Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution preferred, preferably in a technical field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering 
▪    A minimum of 5 years with Microsoft cloud products required
▪    Knowledge of HIPAA and HITEC requirements are a plus