Job Description
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit x 2 Cloud Analysts until the 31st of March 2026 on a rate of £550/day (Inside IR35). These roles will have flexible working arrangements.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support on all aspects of the Microsoft Azure Cloud, including but not limited to; Arm/Bicep Templates, Azure networking services including Virtual Network (VNet), Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints, Peering Service and Azure Bastion, Azure Virtual Machines and Microsoft Entra ID
- Effectively manage the incident and request queues to ensure all incidents and requests are closed in line with service level agreements
- Ad hoc project work to support the implementation or improvement of services based on the Hybrid Cloud technologies
- Monitor the performance of the partners Public Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure
- Attend technical meetings with peers and interact with enough knowledge to contribute to end results
- Provide mentoring, support and training to 1st, 2nd & 3rd line support staff, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely manner and within designated SLA timescale.
- Improving the availability, reliability, stability of all areas and components of the Microsoft infrastructure
- Management of Virtual Machines within the Public Cloud
- Proactive monitoring of the Service to prevent incidents
- Security and Compliance monitoring and reporting support and production of necessary materials
- Provide Face to face support where additional investigation is required or to resolve issues where remote support is not possible
- Proactively monitor the services across the Microsoft platform to ensure service stability and performance
Essential Skills:
- Demonstrable work experience equivalent to SCQF level 9 or be educated to degree level
- Relevant experience in a similar Senior technical role
- Experience of managing Azure environments, Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID and Networking
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Good understanding of Microsoft M365 components
- Knowledge and experience in Azure Arm/Bicep Templates, Azure networking services including Virtual Network (VNet), Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints, Peering Service and Azure Bastion, Azure Virtual Machines and Microsoft Entra ID
- Customer Focused with the ability to understand and resolve technical issues
- Excellent communication skills
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Prepared to take personal accountability for defined area of responsibility
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to be innovative especially when looking for solutions taking value for money into account
- Flexible and proactive
Desirable Skills:
- ITIL Foundation
- Microsoft Certified Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Understanding of Networking principles
- Understanding of Security principles
- Desire to widen area of expertise and to look for personal development opportunities
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.