Deliverable and Tasks:

·       Migrate workloads to M365.

·       Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMWare environment to Microsoft Azure.

·       Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects to Nutanix environments.

·       Replace remote office VMWare virtual environments with Nutanix systems.

·       Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.

·       Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.

·       Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.

·       Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.

·       Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.

·       Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures.

·       Coordinate administrative, maintenance, and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.

·       Lead, plan, develop, implement, and participate in project design, system administration, maintenance, and support essential to the mission of client.

·       Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks.

·       Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.

·       Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.

·       Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.

·       Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.

·       Lead design discussions, research, identify, and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.

·       Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.

·       Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventative measures.

·       Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.

• Participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business system servers.
• Provide after-hours maintenance and support, whenever required.

Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

 ·    Advanced knowledge of security principles and configurations for Azure, Nutanix, M365 and AVD

·       Advanced knowledge of Virtualization platforms, in particular VMware, Nutanix and AVD

·       Advanced knowledge of Cloud architecture, in particular Azure and AWS

·       Advanced knowledge of M365 architecture including Purview

·       Advanced knowledge of M365 Purview

·       Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Defender/Sentinel

·       Solid knowledge of Azure networking design principles.

·       At least 2 years technical implementation experience with storage technologies (SAN, FCP/ISCSI and NAS)

·       Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)

·       Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)