Microsoft Azure and M365 Solution Engineer

Portfolio BI (PBI) empowers the most sophisticated buy-side firms to take control of their portfolio and operational data. Born from the merger with Hentsu, and backed by NEXT Investors, our customers benefit from our integrated platforms, local technological expertise, and seasoned financial experts. We are an asset management technologist, and we provide a fully managed cloud platform for hedge funds, with on-demand trading, research and corporate technology, as well as connectivity to market data providers, brokers, and exchanges. Our vision is to drive agile transformation across financial services through public cloud technologies, SaaS and data science.

We are committed to developing our team as we grow by offering a variety of opportunities to increase knowledge, build skills, and take charge of your career.

You will:

• Lead the design, planning and implementation of Azure and M365 cloud solutions for new clients, with a high emphasis on automated and reusable deployments 
• Act as an escalation point for Delivery and Manged Service engineers, including vendor escalation  
• Translate general infrastructure concepts through a deep understanding of the Azure toolset and be able to advise and/or select the appropriate Azure service to use for specific deployments 
• Act as Technical Quality Assurance resource on a project
• Proactively look for opportunities to improve the design and implementation of public cloud solutions  
• Keep abreast of emerging cloud technologies and help evaluate cloud native and other vendor offerings to determine best fit for business needs 
• Work alongside other departments (Sales and Managed Service) to achieve company goals and visions
• Provide solutions to any complex Public Cloud-related challenges in the organization (Microsoft Azure and O365 focus, AWS is a plus)  
• Be part of the Architecture Innovation Team continually looking at improvements and efficiencies as well as cutting egde public cloud solutions

Requirements

Essential:

• 4+ years of Azure environment - deployment and support experience 
• Virtual Machines, Availability Sets, Storage Accounts, and Azure Site Recovery 
• Virtual Networks, Virtual WANs, and ExpressRoute 
• Good general working knowledge of the public cloud landscape and why businesses use them. 
• M365, Azure Information Protection, PIM, Endpoint Protection, and Azure AD experience 
• Experience with migrations to public cloud projects (email, documents, applications, servers, etc.)  
• Automation experience using Terraform and PowerShell
• Experience with Configuration management and Cost models based on licences and Azure resources
• High standard of written documentation and annotated diagrams

Great if you have:

• Application Gateways, Firewall, and DDoS Protection experience
• Azure SQL experience 
• Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment experience 
• Experienced with container technologies and tooling such as Docker and Kubernetes (AKS) 
• Azure DevOps & AKS experience 
• Automation experience using Puppet and/or Ansible
• Windows & Linux Server Administration background 

Personal:

• Confident self-starter. Able to learn quickly, use your initiative and be motivated to get the job done effectively
• Have a consultative, positive, solution-focused mentality, and proactive 'can-do' attitude
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Hands-on, self-organised, innovative and accountable attitude
• Excellent team player
• Self-motivated to learn new technologies

Benefits:

You would be part of an international team of people, working on the latest technology and at the forefront of automation and innovation. We offer:

• Hybrid role with a comfortable office in the center of Belgrade
• Private healthcare insurance package, for you and your family
• 23 days of vacation days + public holidays
• Permanent employment contract
• Access to training and coaching to support your growing ambition (A Cloud Guru and Pluralsight)
• The opportunity to receive a yearly performance bonus
• Collaboration with talented, enthusiastic, global teams