Role: Azure Platform Administrator

Location: Raritan, NJ, Onsite (Need Local DL)

Visa: H1B (With PP no.) /USC

Education: no JNTU/no OSMANIA/Anna University

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Role Summary

•  We are looking for an experienced Azure Platform Administrator with 8 years of strong handson exposure to Azure cloud platform operations
•  The role will be responsible for managing securing monitoring and optimizing Azure infrastructure services across enterprise environments
•  The candidate should have working knowledge of Azure Databricks administration including workspace management access control compute governance and integration with Azure services
•  This position requires close collaboration with other platform cloud data engineering DevOps security and application teams to ensure stable scalable and compliant platform operations

Key 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 rolebased access control policies tagging standards cost controls and governance guardrails
•  Support Azure Databricks workspaces clusters jobs libraries secrets access permissions and workspacelevel 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 CICD 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

Required Skills

•          Strong handson 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 catalogschematable permissions and secure data access patterns
•  Handson exposure to automation and scripting using PowerShell Azure CLI Terraform ARMBicep templates or similar infrastructureascode tools
•  Ability to analyze incidents perform root cause analysis tune platform performance optimize cloud costs and drive operational improvements

Qualifications

•     8 years of handson experience in Azure platform administration or cloud infrastructure operations
•  Bachelors 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 problemsolving and crossfunctional collaboration skills
•  Experience working in enterprise support models production operations change management incident management and compliancedriven environments"