DevOps Administrator (Azure)

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2-5 years experience
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Manage and scale a cloud-native platform primarily within Azure, ensuring reliability and portability across AWS and GCP. The role involves administering Azure Virtual Desktop environments and collaborating with engineering teams on infrastructure strategies.

DevOps Administrator (Azure-Focused)

Remote working - Anywhere in South Africa (Must have legal rights to work)

Overview
This is a strategic DevOps role responsible for managing and scaling a cloud-native platform, primarily within Azure, while benefiting from other cross-cloud capabilities (AWS/GCP). The role is both technical and client-facing, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities
Configure and maintain Azure infrastructure (Azure AD, Functions, MongoDB instances)
Manage and scale Dev, Test, and Production environments
Ensure platform portability across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
Support customer deployments and installation environments
Administer Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments
Identify system improvements, risks, and optimization opportunities
Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure and scaling strategies
Set up and operationalize LLMs and MCP-based services



Requirements


Requirements
Strong experience with Microsoft Azure (essential)
Knowledge of MongoDB and serverless architecture (Azure Functions)
Experience with multi-cloud environments - Nice To Have (AWS/GCP)
DevOps mindset with problem-solving and proactive improvement focus
Ability to engage with clients and support technical implementations

Nice to Have
Experience with LLMs, MCP frameworks, or AI integrations
Python or scripting experience
Exposure to virtual desktop environments (AVD)
Configure and maintain Azure based platform to operate the Azure AD services, MongoDB instances, Azure function instances.
Define equivalent Google and AWS implementationsWork with development team on scaling and implementation of Dev, Test and Prod environmentsAdministrate internal AVD environment with 4 client configurations


Benefits

Remote Working
25 Days Annual Leave + South African Public Holidays 
8 am - 4 pm UK time

The chance to work with a company doing the following: 
We're building a platform for materials information, materials testing, and certification, and these kinds of things, which is mainly used in the space and defence markets, as well as automotive.
We work on medical devices
Our target market are businesses that really care about their brand, about the materials they use, i.e., companies like Apple
Apple phones for example the materials is a key part of the design or even developing aircraft or spacecraft that need to do more challenging missions. So from an engineering perspective, that's what we're doing.


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