Microsoft Specialist - Azure & O365 - 3rd Line

Microsoft Specialist - Azure & O365 - 3rd Line. £450 Day Rate - Outside IR35 - 6 Month Contract. Onsite - Monday to Friday. Warwick, Warwickshire. Contract - T6/MN/18598.
Global organisation seeking to secure an experienced Microsoft Specialist - Azure & O365 - 3rd Line. The role is a combination of Azure Services & O365 Deployment & Support - MUST have experience of both.
Role: 

• Providing effective Level 3 Azure, O365, Automation, Network, Infrastructure & Security support.
• Deployment of Microsoft Cloud Services - covering development, security & deployment.
• Level 3 escalation support for all entity Azure & O365 issues escalated from Service Desk & Level 2 support teams.
• Attend Weekly Team meetings - attend a remote team meeting 1 evening every week to align with Global IT Teams.
• On-call - provide out-of-hours support as required - will be on-call 1 weekend in every 5 weeks - will be remunerated.

Technical Skills Required:

• Azure - Managing & deploying Azure Services - Virtual Machine, Databases, Storage, Virtual Network, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure backups/restores, Azure High Availability, Azure Microservices - 3+ years’ experience.
• Office 365 - managing & deploying common Office 365 Services - Users, Security, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, migrating Office 365 domains, AAD directory sync, Hybrid AD environment & Licensing - 3 years’ experience.
• Office 365 Security & Compliance - implementing & managing - DLP, Information Governance, Advanced Threat Management, AIP, Secure Score - 3+ years experience.
• Azure - design, implementation & managing Cloud Networking & Security - Firewalls, Network Security Groups, Express Route, Azure VPN, Microsoft Azure Networking & Security best practices - 3+ years’ experience.
• Azure & Office 365 - deploying new Cloud workloads - 3+ years’ experience.
• LANs & WANs - design, deploy, support & manage global networks - 3+ years’ experience.
• Azure Security knowledge, implementation & monitoring.
• Network & Infrastructure Security knowledge - implementation & monitoring.
• Azure Automation & PowerShell scripting.
• Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure B2C, on-prem domain controllers, conditional access & Azure AAD Sync, Hybrid AD.
• Azure Security Centre - review & implementation of security recommendations, threat protection, JIT, Azure Sentinel (or other SIEM).
• Azure availability, capacity management & monitoring.
• On-premise AD role based & Access Control - developing & implementation.
• Intune - deployment across Laptops - policy creation, device enrollment, device compliance, policy troubleshooting, Autopilot & PowerShell scripts.
• DevOps principles & practices experience.
• Technical Documentation - developing & maintaining documentation.
• Ability to communicate effectively - oral & written.
• Ability to present complex information to both technical & non-technical stakeholders/audiences.
• Team player - collaborative approach to teamwork.

Desirable:

• Microsoft/Azure Certifications (e.g., AZ-103/104, MS-500, MS-101, AZ-500).
• Office 365 Certificatio1ns (advantageous).
• Aruba Network Certification.
• Cisco Certifications.
• CloudTrail.

Keywords: Senior Cloud Engineer, Azure Engineer, Azure, Office 365, O365, Microsoft Cloud Services, O365 Infrastructure Engineer, O365, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Azure Security, LAN, WAN, Network Automation, PowerShell, 3rd Line Support, Level 3 Network Engineer, 3rd Line Network Engineer, West Midlands, Warwickshire. Contract. T6/MN/18598.