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Posted 11 hours agoAzure Server Administrator
at ApplyBoard
Gurgaon, IndiaOn-site
Requirements
- ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad application process by connecting international students, international student advisors, and educational institutions on one personalized platform.
- The Opportunity: We are hiring an Azure Server Administrator who owns the university's Microsoft Azure environment end to end: how it is designed, how it runs day to day, and how it stays secure and compliant.
- Operating model You are the university's Azure owner.
- You provide on-call coverage for Azure incidents and own them through resolution and post-incident documentation.
- responsibilities Administration of Azure infrastructure supporting university academic and administrative systems On-call coverage for Azure incident response, with documented escalation paths Process, procedure, and configuration documentation Change management participation for all production modifications Documentation, runbooks, and cross-training of a designated IT backup on critical procedures Architecture and platform Azure architecture design and planning for university workloads, right-sized
- experience 5+ years administering Windows and/or Linux servers in a production environment 3+ years hands-on with Microsoft Azure: compute, storage, networking, identity, and monitoring Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, and network security fundamentals PowerShell scripting proficiency; Azure CLI experience preferred Demonstrated
- experience owning an environment independently, with clear documentation and change management discipline Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104); Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) a plus AZ-500, SC-300, or a comparable security credential such as Security+ or CISSP Infrastructure-as-Code delivery in production with ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform Higher education or other regulated-industry
- experience Familiarity with Ellucian Colleague or a comparable ERP environment What success looks like in a year: The Azure environment is monitored, patched, and backed up on a documented cadence, and recovery has been tested Incidents are resolved inside agreed response targets, with post-incident documentation the team actually uses Audit and vulnerability findings are remediated or on a dated plan, with evidence ready for review Identity, secrets, and network security controls are documented and
- Ready to join us? We're grateful for your interest in joining the ApplyBoard team.
- We may use artificial intelligence tools to support the hiring process, potentially while reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing applicant responses.
Additional details
- For more than a decade, ApplyBoard's team members have been dedicated to breaking down barriers to international education, while thriving at a company that invests in their career growth.
- Our six core values guide us in our mission to educate the world, and are the foundation of our company culture.
- As an organization built on diversity, our team members are representative of the students we support.
- You keep the systems that serve our students, faculty, and staff reliable and secure, and you close the loop on every incident, patch, and audit finding.
- You own architecture decisions, daily operations, and the security and compliance posture, with Information Security as your partner and Microsoft and vendor support as your escalation path.
- You will be trusted to make sound platform decisions and to document them so the institution is never dependent on what only you know.
- You design, operate, secure, and improve the environment, escalating to Microsoft and vendor support when depth beyond one person is required.
- You mitigate the single-person risk deliberately: documented runbooks, Infrastructure-as-Code where practical, and cross-training a designated IT backup on critical recovery procedures.
- Every production change goes through change management.
- You document what you build to a standard a colleague can follow without you in the room.