Role Overview:This role is for an Azure Administrator with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The position involves providing in-depth AI expertise to support Azure customers, deploying and maintaining Azure resources, and designing cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications, specifically leveraging Azure AI Services and Azure Open AI.
Key Responsibilities:- Provide in-depth AI expertise to support the technical relationship with Azure customers, including product and solution briefings, creating demos, and proof-of-concept work.
- Partner directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption of Azure AI Services (Cognitive services portfolio, Azure Open AI).
- Deploy and maintain Azure resources and other cloud technologies.
- Utilize PowerShell and Terraform for infrastructure management.
- Implement and support Networking, Databases, Software, and Servers in the Cloud.
- Design architecture for integrating core infrastructure technologies in support of enterprise applications.
- Perform risk assessments of existing and new technology deployments.
- Recommend, implement, and monitor security auditing and alerting solutions.
- Monitor cloud and on-premise resources to verify integrity and availability.
- Troubleshoot operational issues, escalate as appropriate, and offer solutions.
- Collaborate with application development, network/security, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration within the production environment.
- Establish standards, tools, and processes to be used by the team and create procedures to guarantee adherence and compliance.
- Develop, document, and understand internal IT processes and procedures.
- Utilize automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Ensure timely resolution of issues and communicate status and resolution to all impacted parties.
- Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Azure AI.
- Employ technical expertise in the design, implementation, testing, and ongoing support of the Data Lake cloud infrastructure.
- Develop Network and Security best practices for Azure Data Platform, provide expertise in Azure infrastructure as code, and administer and maintain production platforms to meet SLAs.
- Create CI/CD Pipelines for deployment.
- Advise customers on incorporating AI accelerators into their overall cloud strategy by recommending migration paths, integration strategies, and application architecture that incorporate Azure Cognitive services / Azure Open AI.
- Demonstrate how Azure AI is differentiated.
Required Skills:- Microsoft Azure Administration
- Azure AI Services (Cognitive services portfolio, Azure Open AI)
- PowerShell
- Terraform
- Python scripting
- Networking, Databases, Software, and Servers in the Cloud
- Security auditing and alerting solutions
- Automation tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Azure Data Platform infrastructure
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