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Job Title: Azure AdministratorLocation: Hybrid - CrawleySalary: Up to £35,000 - Depending on ExperienceJob Type: Full time, Permanent (35 Hours)Closing Date: 2nd September 2022Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation.About the role:** This is a Hybrid role - there is a requirement to work in our Crawley office an average of two days a week**Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga. And right now, we have an existing opportunity for an Azure Administrator to join our Saga Travel Group Technology Team. You will be responsible for supporting and maintaining the cloud IT infrastructure that supports the business. You will do this by delivering outstanding service and providing technical ownership for challenges across the technology estate. In return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast-paced career with an excellent benefits package. So, if this is of interest to you then we would be keen to hear from you! Main Responsibilities:Supplying enterprise business support across the cloud technology estate to both internal technology teams and to the business unit community. Monitoring, automation and performance tuning of cloud resources and associated applications. Administration of the core enterprise shared services system maintenance procedures, this will include raising and taking ownership of processes such as change requests, problem management, root cause analysis, fault identification and resolution. Responsibility for ensuring Saga Travel Group security policies is met, and services are securely configured in line with best practices, alongside the proactive management of Azure Secure Score. Performance and Cost optimisation of Azure builds of Azure Virtual Desktops, VMs, reserved instances, application pools, AGW, Firewalls. Supporting the technology operations management team in developing and delivering innovative technology initiatives.Work closely with the information security team to implement changes that improve the security of the supported applications. Monitoring applications and taking proactive actions to prevent impact to the business. Support the technology operations team to develop and deliver innovative technology initiatives to the business. About you:Azure Administration - AZ-104 certified preferable. AZ-140 or AZ-700 will be an advantage.Experience working in a cloud infrastructure related role within a corporate environmentTop Skills, you will have demonstrable experience in most of the following: Deploy and Manage Azure compute resources including Azure Resource Manager templates, Virtual Machine extensions, Azure Disk Encryption, Virtual Machine Sizes, High Availability and Scale Sets. Create and Configure Azure Storage Accounts, Generate Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens, manage Access Keys and configure Network Access to storage accounts. Manage and Configure RADIUS, Certificate-based, Open VPN and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication. Configure Azure role, Custom roles permissions for Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, and Resources. Create and Manage Internal & External Azure Identities including Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Conditional Access Policies, and Azure AD identity Protection.Create and Configure Enterprise App Registration, Integrate Single-On (SSO) and Identity Providers for authentication. Create and customize alert rules, configure diagnostic logging, log retention, and monitor security logs by using Azure Monitor. Create and configure Azure Recovery Services Vault, Backup Vault, and Azure Virtual Machine backup policies. Perform Backup and restore operations by using Azure backup and site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery. Benefits:Remote working available where possible25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per yearFree private medical insurance after 1 years' serviceWorkplace PensionAXA Be SupportedA range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companiesPlease click APPLY to be redirected to the company's careers page to complete your application.Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; System Administrator, Azure Design, Cloud Virtualisation Architect, Cloud, Network Administrator, Software Support, System Developer, Software Administrator, Software Architect may also be considered for this role.