Azure Administrator Engineer
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About the Role
BRAVANTIC in Abu Dhabi seeks an Azure Administrator Engineer to lead cloud migration initiatives and provide operational support for Microsoft cloud estate. The role involves on-premises to Azure migrations, day-to-day operations, and Microsoft 365 migrations.
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Responsibilities
- Assess on premises virtual machine workloads for cloud readiness, including dependency mapping, sizing, and cost estimation
- Plan and execute migrations using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and Database Migration Service
- Configure target landing zones including resource groups, VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, and storage accounts
- Perform cutover planning, validation, rollback procedures, and obtain application owner sign off
- Decommission source workloads and reconcile licensing, backups, and monitoring post migration
- Administer Azure IaaS and PaaS resources including VMs, storage, networking, Key Vault, Backup, and Recovery Services Vaults
- Investigate and resolve incidents within SLAs, perform root cause analysis, and document corrective actions
- Monitor platform health using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Defender for Cloud
- Manage patching, backup/restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery testing
- Maintain RBAC, identity hygiene, and security compliance
- Execute mailbox migrations to Exchange Online using cutover, staged, or hybrid methods
- Migrate user data to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online using SPMT or equivalent tools
Requirements
- 3+ years of Azure administration experience
- Experience delivering at least one large scale Azure VM migration
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 including mailbox and OneDrive migration
- Proficiency in PowerShell (Az, Graph, Exchange modules)
- Strong foundation in Azure networking, identity, storage, backup, and monitoring
- Familiarity with ITIL practices
- Microsoft certifications: AZ 104, MS 102/MS 203, AZ 700, AZ 305
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Exposure to hybrid identity, Intune, and Defender for Endpoint
- Experience with ticketing tools like ServiceNow
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Your purpose at Bravantic
- We are seeking an Azure Administrator Engineer to lead and execute cloud migration initiatives and provide ongoing operational support across our Microsoft cloud estate.
- The role is hands on and delivery focused, with three core pillars: on premises to Azure migrations, day to day operations and incident response, and Microsoft 365 (OneDrive and Exchange Online) migrations.
Main Responsibilities
- Assess on premises virtual machine workloads (Hyper V / VMware) for cloud readiness, including dependency mapping, sizing, and cost estimation.
- Plan and execute migrations using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), and Database Migration Service.
- Configure target landing zones including resource groups, VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, and storage accounts aligned with naming standards.
- Perform cutover planning, validation, rollback procedures, and obtain application owner sign off.
- Decommission source workloads and reconcile licensing, backups, and monitoring post migration.
- Administer Azure IaaS and PaaS resources including VMs, storage, networking, Key Vault, Backup, and Recovery Services Vaults.
- Investigate and resolve incidents within SLAs, perform root cause analysis, and document corrective actions.
- Monitor platform health using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Defender for Cloud.
- Manage patching, backup/restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery testing.
- Maintain RBAC, identity hygiene, and security compliance.
- Maintain operational runbooks, change records, and knowledge base articles.
- Execute mailbox migrations to Exchange Online using cutover, staged, or hybrid methods.
Profile we are looking for
- 3+ years of Azure administration experience.
- Experience delivering at least one large scale Azure VM migration.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 including mailbox and OneDrive migration.
- Proficiency in PowerShell (Az, Graph, Exchange modules).
- Strong foundation in Azure networking, identity, storage, backup, and monitoring.
- Familiarity with ITIL practices.
- Microsoft certifications: AZ 104, MS 102/MS 203, AZ 700, AZ 305.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Exposure to hybrid identity, Intune, and Defender for Endpoint.
- Experience with ticketing tools like ServiceNow.
Your benefits for joining the team
- Employment Contract in Abu Dhabi.
- Health Insurance.
- Assistance in obtaining the UAE Visa.
- Training and continuous monitoring.
- Dynamic environment.
- Specialized team.
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