Sr. Cloud Systems Administrator

Job summary

Senior Cloud Systems Administrator New York, NY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture & Governance - Design, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve Cipriani’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure across corporate and property environments.

Qualifications

• Maintain clear architecture documentation, cloud diagrams, technical standards, support runbooks, and knowledge base materials.
• Cloud Migration, Modernization & Enterprise Services
• Support cloud migration and modernization efforts across on-premises-to-Azure, cloud-to-cloud, hybrid, and legacy application environments.
• Participate in discovery and assessment activities including workload inventory, dependency mapping, application readiness, rehost/replatform/refactor recommendations, and migration wave planning.
• Support cutover execution and post-migration hypercare, including replication monitoring, test migrations, rollback planning, stakeholder communication, and stabilization.
• Support Azure data and analytics workloads, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, and related data movement or processing platforms.
• Support emerging Microsoft cloud initiatives, including Azure OpenAI, Copilot readiness/governance, automation, analytics, and business intelligence workloads where applicable.
• Identity, Security & Compliance
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices, least-privilege access, secure infrastructure patterns, and identity-based access models.
• Administer Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, including Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, RBAC, app registrations, enterprise applications, hybrid identity, Entra Connect/Cloud Sync, and access governance.
• Support Zero Trust models and security baselines across users, devices, applications, and cloud resources.
• Configure and support Azure security services such as Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR integrations, Key Vault, and secure score improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture & Governance
• Design, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve Cipriani’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure across corporate and property environments.
• Define and support compute and platform patterns including virtual machines, VM scale sets, App Services, Functions, Azure Container Registry, and AKS/Kubernetes where applicable.
• Design, configure, and maintain Azure networking, including Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Network Security Groups, DNS, peering, routing, gateways, firewalls, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity.
• Support secure network topologies such as hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN, including Azure Firewall, Application Gateway/WAF, Private Link, ExpressRoute/VPN, and DDoS Protection where needed.
• Implement scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures aligned with business, security, and operational

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