Role description
Azure Platform Administrator
Location Rartian NJ Onsite
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"
