Cloud Administrator (Full-Time)

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Cloud Administrator to help design, maintain, and optimize the cloud infrastructure that supports our SaaS platform, delivering reliable software services to our customers. You will join a small, collaborative team responsible for ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of the cloud environment that underpins our SaaS applications.

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience with Microsoft Azure, database administration, and modern infrastructure best practices, with a focus on availability, performance, and security for cloud-based applications.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Operations & Administration

• Manage, monitor, and optimize Azure-based infrastructure and workloads supporting the SaaS platform.
• Perform day-to-day administration of virtual machines, storage, networking, identity, and security services.
• Maintain and optimize cloud resources and services.
• Apply software patches and updates across servers and cloud services to ensure security and compliance.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure consistent uptime and performance for SaaS applications.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Apply cloud security best practices to protect customer data and platform workloads.
• Monitor and remediate security alerts and vulnerabilities across environments.
• Ensure overall security and protection of data across all cloud services.

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure proactive visibility into SaaS platform health.
• Participate in incident response and ensure timely resolution of infrastructure-related issues.
• Contribute to reliability improvements and prevention measures.

Architecture & Design

• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient cloud architecture that supports multi-tenant SaaS workloads.
• Assist in evaluating and adopting Azure services that improve performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Support database architecture and management for MongoDB and MS SQL to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of SaaS applications.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work closely with development and product teams to support operational needs for SaaS services.
• Maintain documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, and operational processes.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in scalability, automation, and process consistency.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of experience as a Cloud Administrator or Azure Administrator.
• Strong knowledge of Azure IaaS and PaaS services.
• Experience with MongoDB and MS SQL administration and management is preferred.
• Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305 are strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with cloud management and scripting tools (e.g., PowerShell or similar).
• Experience with networking, identity, virtualization, and cloud security.
• Strong understanding of cloud monitoring and observability tools.