Job Title: Azure Platform Administrator
Location: Plano, TX (Onsite)
Job type: full-time
Job Description
We are seeking an Azure Platform Administrator. In this role, you will enable digital transformation for our clients in a global delivery model, research on technologies independently, recommend appropriate solutions and contribute to technology-specific best practices and standards. You will provide inputs for identifying best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; develop design of applications, provide regular support and guidance to project teams on complex coding and issue resolution with the objective of ensuring best-fit and high-quality technical solutions within the area of technology specialization and in compliance with guidelines, policies and norms of Infosys. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.
Key Responsibilities
- Azure platform operations (VMs, App Services, AKS, Storage, Networking)
- Sizing, Capacity planning, Provisioning, configuration
- Incident, problem, and change management via ITSM tools
- Monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Backup, disaster recovery, and resilience management
- Security, RBAC, Key Vault, and policy enforcement
- Design & integrate - RBAC, Endpoints, NSG, DNS, Proxy, Firewall, Storage, Compute, Scheduling
- Performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization
- Automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Logic Apps
- Documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge transfer
Deep knowledge and hand on experience in Azure Services
- Compute: VMs, VMSS, AKS, App Services
- Storage: Blob, ADLS, Files
- Networking: VNets, NSGs, Load Balancer, Firewall, App Gateway
- App & Integration: API Connections, API Management, Function Apps
- Security: RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy
- Data: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB
- DevOps: Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Cost : Cost management and FinOps exposure
- Familiarity with vector search and semantic retrieval for retail use cases
- Expertise in data privacy and compliance in consumer-facing environments
- Good experience in end-to-end implementation of data warehouse and data marts
- Strong understanding of Data Warehousing concepts of Data Vault, Dimensional modelling, OLAP design
- Extensive experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins
- Experience designing and implementing complex solutions for distributed systems
- Experience in leading and mentoring teams
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education
- At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology
- Strong experience of Azure platform administration
- Strong knowledge of Azure compute, network, and storage
Preferred Qualifications:
- ITIL-based support experience
- PowerShell / Azure CLI scripting
- Troubleshooting and RCA skills
- Experience in Relational Modeling, Dimensional Modeling and Modeling of Unstructured Data
- Familiarity with log and monitoring solutions
- Experience in utilizing development containers, unit testing/code quality review/linting - standard best practice
- Good understanding of Agile software development frameworks
- Strong communication and Analytical skills
- Ability to work in teams in a diverse, multi-stakeholder environment comprising of Business and Technology teams
- Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment
- Experience with Generative AI frameworks: OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain
- Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI integration standards.
- Experience and detailed knowledge with Master Data Management, ETL, Data Quality, metadata management, data profiling, micro-batches, streaming data loads
