Description:
The Cloud Infrastructure Administrator will play a key role in SickKids IT operations, responsible for designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure with a focus on Microsoft Azure. This role involves designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code practices, integrating with on-premises systems, and driving cloud modernization initiatives. The successful candidate will architect scalable, secure cloud solutions while supporting SickKids's cloud-first strategy.
Here's What You'll Do
- Designing, implementing, and delivering core cloud platform infrastructure and services to production, with connectivity to on-premises systems as required
- Proactively maintain availability of SickKids's cloud infrastructure and services
- Ensure workloads meet infrastructure security and compliance
- Disaster recovery planning and regional failover and DR testing for workloads
- Creates and manages system documentation, including configurations and backup procedures
- Maintains and improve system performance through monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning, designing and running system load/stress testing
- Participates in technical design, team review and implementation of new workloads and optimization of existing workloads
- Responsible for ensuring solutions deployments completed as per internal standards and customer expectations
- Performs system engineering, system management, performance management, capacity management, and change/problem management for cloud environments
- Participate in an after-hours On-call rotation to support production Cloud workloads to restore service quickly when incidents occur
- Follow process management discipline for change and incident management of all systems managed and acts as a subject matter expert in handling the incidents
Here's What You'll Need
- A university degree or college diploma in computer science
- 2 to 5 years experience in a large-scale, multi-platform, multi-tier processing environment
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or equivalent Azure certification
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform is preferred (HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate is an asset)
- Knowledge of ITIL Framework required. ITIL V4 Foundations Certification is an asset
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (required); experience with GCP is an asset
- Commitment to equity, diversity & inclusion