Azure Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Azure

• Provide global strategic leadership for the design, optimization, and lifecycle management of Azure core infrastructure across ODI and affiliates, ensuring cost efficiency, security, and compliance.
• Lead the design, deployment, maintenance and backup of Azure and M365 environments.
• Lead in state-of-the-art technologies such as infrastructure as code, AI, secure trusted technical relationships, and remote site management.
• Strengthen and maintain global infrastructure security posture across all environments.
• Lead automation initiatives using tools like PowerShell, Bicep, Terraform, and Power Automate to improve efficiency.
• Architect and implement global monitoring and alerting systems to enhance service reliability, cost effectiveness, response times, and customer satisfaction across all critical IT services.
• Provide 2nd/3rd line support when needed for the first line team and out of hours support for critical infrastructure incidents.

Organisational Engagement

• Engage with stakeholders, sharing information and working together to provide a technical environment that is unified in security and collaboration.
• Take an active lead with project managers, stakeholders and end users in the implementation of projects.

Experiences and Qualifications

Personal Qualities

This role requires not only a strong interest in technical developments, but also a heart and passion for strengthening the Persecuted Church.

The person will:

• Be cross-culturally sensitive and know how to build relationships in different cultures.
• Have excellent customer service skills.
• Be resilient and see challenges as opportunities.
• Be self-aware and aware of impact he/she has on others.

Key Competencies, skills and experience

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in IT or similar area preferably Masters or similar Microsoft Certifications.
• Minimum recent 5 years of proven experience with Microsoft Azure services, particularly networking, databases, data management and architecture, app deployment and performance optimization, but all areas of Azure are of benefit.
• Demonstratable masters level critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
•  Ability to think outside the box and solve problems creatively.
• Able to plan and execute projects with an understanding of how to prioritise.
• A proactive, service oriented, organised team player
• Excellent communication skills (in English).