Senior Azure Administrator

Job Purpose

The Senior Azure Administrator is a strategic, architecture‑focused, decision‑making role. This position defines standards, leads complex initiatives, and ensures Azure environments meet enterprise requirements for security, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency, while mentoring others and shaping the organization’s cloud future.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Azure Infrastructure Architecture & Management
  • Design and architect full Azure environments, including compute, storage, networking, identity, HA/DR, and governance models
  • Define and maintain architecture standards, performance baselines, and operational best practices
  • Lead on‑premises to Azure migrations and major infrastructure modernization initiatives

• Identity & Access Management (Azure AD / Entra ID)

  • Architect hybrid identity solutions (Azure AD Connect, federation models)
  • Define RBAC strategies, privileged access models, and Zero Trust policies
  • Implement and govern Conditional Access, MFA, and Identity Protection controls

• Security & Compliance

  • Design and own the enterprise Azure security posture
  • Lead threat analysis, incident response, and security remediation efforts
  • Implement advanced security controls such as Private Endpoints, Key Vault policies, SIEM integrations, and Defender for Cloud strategies
  • Support audits and compliance initiatives across regulated environments

• Monitoring, Reliability & Optimization

  • Architect Log Analytics workspaces, monitoring solutions, dashboards, and alerting frameworks
  • Lead root cause analysis for high‑severity incidents and outages
  • Drive performance optimization, availability improvements, and long‑term remediation plans
  • Own Azure cost optimization, forecasting, and capacity planning

• Networking

  • Design and manage complex hybrid network architectures, including: 
    • ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways
    • Network segmentation and firewalls
    • Private endpoints and traffic inspection
  • Handle enterprise‑level routing, latency optimization, and failover planning

• Governance & Cost Management

  • Define and enforce Azure governance frameworks, including: 
    • Azure Policy
    • Naming and tagging standards
    • RBAC models and guardrails
  • Own budget tracking, cost forecasting, and financial governance
  • Establish and mature FinOps practices for cloud optimization

• Leadership & Project Responsibilities

  • Act as technical lead or cloud architect for major initiatives
  • Mentor and guide junior Azure administrators
  • Serve as a technical advisor to management and cross‑functional teams
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and long‑term cloud strategy

Qualifications

Required:

• 5–10+ years of progressive experience in Azure infrastructure administration and design
• Deep expertise in Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services
• Strong experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex, high‑severity production issues
• Experience designing secure, scalable, enterprise‑grade cloud architectures
• Strong communication skills 

Preferred:

• Experience with hybrid cloud environments
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO, SOC, HIPAA, etc.)
• FinOps or cloud cost‑management experience

Certifications (Preferred)

• Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• Microsoft (MCSA/MCSE or equivalent experience)
• CompTIA Network+ or Security+
• VMware VCP
• Linux+ or RHCSA

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to sit/stand for 8 hours 
• Ability to work in an interactive office group setting, and spend primary working hours at a desk using a computer and other office equipment such as printers, copiers, postage machines, etc.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and infrequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus

 Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Safety Requirements

Adhere to office safety policies and must be able to wear appropriate PPE on production floor if needed. 

DNP IAM is a 100 percent U.S. subsidiary of Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) – the world’s largest manufacturer of dye-sublimation media for photo printers and thermal transfer ribbons and barcode printers. DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation has the broadest selection of solutions for the photo retail market and products designed to address retailer’s specific business goals and objectives—backed by the quality and reliability today’s customers expect. Manufacturing, sales, and development offices of dye-sublimation media for photo printers are in Concord, NC, and more information is available at www.dnpphoto.com/en-us/.

DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.