Job Title:
Principal Azure Engineer
Location:
OH - Columbus
What you'll do:
The Azure Engineer will provide the expertise on all things Azure. With at least 8 years of experience that focuses on least access principles, this role will provide support, implementation, and design services for the Azure environment across the enterprise. This will include directory and Entra identity management solutions following "least privilege" practices.
This role will be resolving, and appropriately completing assigned cases and change requests, as well as acting as an escalation for support issues.
The Azure Engineer will be applying new solutions through research and collaboration within the team, as well as collaborate with other IT teams.
What we are looking for:
Responsibilities:

• Engineer enterprise-level designs for Azure, Group Policy Management, Azure AD Hybrid for incidents, changes, and access management via multi-forest/domain.
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery everywhere possible.
• Own Root Cause Analysis and Problem Management for Azure.
• Serves as the first line of escalation support for domain technology issues that cannot be resolved by tiers one and two.
• Lead and contribute to multiple projects and ensure deadlines are met.
• Implement Zero Trust in Azure - Global secure knowledge a plus
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all Domain controllers, Active Directory resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying Azure Health
• Improve existing processes for Conditional Access Policies.
• Improve Compliance Scorecard in Azure.
• Participate in revolving On-Call escalated business critical outages and Disaster Recovery Process as well as creating DR plan.
• Document, Create and mentor on all processes.
• Managed Service Account Knowledge
• Assist in troubleshooting M365 issues
• Assist in the migration of On-prem Active Directory to Azure Active Directory

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or equivalent experience
• 10 years in IT Systems Engineering/Active Directory
• 6 years in Azure AD
• Knowledge with Zero Trust Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Group Policy Management.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange (Hybrid), Quest Active Roles Server (ARS) are preferable.
• Must have deep and thorough understanding of Active Directory monitoring best practices and Azure.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure and server preferably VMware and/or Microsoft technologies
• Develops, documents, and enforces the standards, Advance Active Directory security procedures, and controls for access to ensure integrity of the Windows Systems, Active Directory, and related systems as well as Azure
• Knowledge of GPO Admin
• Solarwinds ARM (Access Rights Management) knowledge
• Panzura FileShare Knowledge

Professional Skills/Experience:

• Minimum 10 years overall IT experience with 5-7 years of experience working with Microsoft Identity technologies including Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Windows File Services, and Group Policies.
• Desired experience working in a fast-paced Industrial environment with a career track record of engineering, developing, deploying, and maintaining business critical systems in the area of technical expertise including hands on solution development and implementation experience.
• Team Player with a "can do" attitude with proven leadership, communication, organizational, and strong interpersonal skills. The role requires significant interaction with many different teams across a global company.
• Self-motivated, with keen attention to detail and excellent judgment skills, one who can lead as well as follow. Able to integrate and apply feedback in a professional manner.
• Project Management knowledge and understanding of Scrum and Agile workflows.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
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