Cloud System Administrator

**Cloud System Administrator**

**What is Equisoft?** Equisoft is a global provider of digital solutions for insurance and investment, recognized by over 250 of the world's leading financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive ecosystem of scalable solutions that help our customers meet all the challenges brought about by this era of digital transformation, thanks to our business needs-driven approach, industry knowledge, cutting-edge technologies and experts. With its business-driven approach, in-depth industry knowledge, cutting-edge technologies and multicultural team of experts based in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, Equisoft helps its customers meet the challenges of this era of digital transformation.

**Why Choose Equisoft? **With 950+ employees, we are a stable organization that offers career advancement and fosters a stimulant environment. If that’s not enough, then check out these other perks below:

- Hiring Location: Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia & India
- You are welcome to work 100% remote
- Full-time Permanent
- Benefits available day 1: medical, dental, term life/personal accident coverage, wellness sessions, telemedicine program, etc.
- Flexible hours
- Educational Support (Udemy, LOMA Courses and Equisoft University)

**Role**: The Cloud System Administrator reports to the Director, IT Infrastructure and works closely with the DevOps team. The incumbent will have proven experience managing and supporting cloud computing (private and public cloud) environments specifically with Azure. The Cloud System Administrator plays a major role in the implementation, deployment, maintenance, and evolution of cloud systems.

**Your Day with Equisoft**:

- Administer cloud systems and environments on the public clouds ensuring availability, reliability, and security of the systems.
- Support the environment’s automation, creation, and operations through the different available provisioning tools.
- Collaborate with the Cloud Architects, Cloud Infrastructure Developers and Project teams to implement, deploy, and maintain infrastructures supporting top of the line cloud solutions.
- Provide the project teams the appropriate support regarding cloud-specific expertise during the implementation stages.
- Work closely with the DevOps team to deploy, operate and alert mechanisms to ensure visibility of systems' behavior.
- Work closely with the Security team to implement industry's security best practices.
- Supervise the systems to ensure that daily operations are conducted appropriately.
- Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.

**Requirements**:
**Technical**
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline)
- Minimum of 2+ years in a role supporting service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms
- Good knowledge of network administration, TCP/IP protocols, Internet services (DNS, FTP, etc.), Windows, Linux family protocols
- Solid knowledge of Microsoft and Linux operating systems and products
- Knowledge of MS DOS, PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI.
- Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
- Experience with Microsoft Azure Compute and Storage Services, Azure SQL DB/DW,
- Azure Logic Apps/API Management/Service Bus, Azure AD, Azure Resource Manager (Highly Desired)
- Understanding of good practices in terms of security and governance
- Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment, comfortable with uncertainty.
- At least one certification Microsoft (AZ-300, AZ-301, AZ-302, A-303), CCNA or CISSP

**Soft skills**
- Strong sense of organization and prioritizing
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to work effectively across teams, with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate, write and synthesize information
- Ability to multi-task in a rapid-paced environment
- Team spirit, tact, diplomacy, autonomy, rigor, and discipline

**Nice to Haves**:

- Experience with containers such as Azure Kubernetes Service, and Docker
- Experience in AWS, OCI, and/or GCP
- Expertise with Cloud security
- Experience with Infrastructure as a Code
- Experience with Terraform
- Knowledge of French
- Knowledge of the Insurance industry

If you don't meet all the requirements, we still want to hear from you Equisoft is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.