Azure Engineer (Infrastructure Specialist 4)

Schedule: Full-time

BWC’s core hours of operation are Monday-Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm, however, daily start/end times may vary based on operational need across BWC departments. Most positions perform work on-site at one of BWC’s seven offices across the state. BWC offers flex-time work schedules that allow an employee to start the day as early as 7:00am or as late as 8:30am. Flex-time schedules are based on operational need and require supervisor approval.

What You'll Be Doing:

Uses extensive working technical knowledge of infrastructure operations & maintenance & receives general direction in order to evaluate current IT policies, procedures, & practices & recommend &/or leads IT driven change effort, participates in &/or leads activities to achieve project tasks/meet deadlines, & perform solutions designs.

Creating, troubleshooting & maintaining Production & Test Azure environments

Designing, implementing & supporting a stable Azure environment.

Using knowledge of design to implement & support a stable Windows OS IIS (Internet Information Services) environment that supports BWC applications.

Developing Azure DevOps & GitHub Enterprise within BWC.

Providing leadership & engineering for Active Directory, Automic, the Web Support team to support Web releases, & Web applications, interfaces with 3rd party software providers as needed to design, implement & troubleshoot as needed.

supports Disaster Recovery needs & implements Security best practices & performs vulnerability management for environment.

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To Qualify, You Must Clearly Demonstrate:

Required Experience and/or Education

60 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating current IT policies, procedures and practices, recommending and/or leading IT driven change efforts, participating and/or leading activities to achieve project tasks/meet deadlines, and performing solutions design including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.

Or completion of associate core program in computer science or information systems AND 42 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating current IT policies, procedures and practices, recommending and/or leading IT driven change efforts, participating and/or leading activities to achieve project tasks/meet deadlines, and performing solutions design including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.

Or completion of undergraduate core program in computer science or information systems AND 36 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating current it policies, procedures and practices, recommending and/or leading IT driven change efforts, participating and/or leading activities to achieve project tasks/meet deadlines, and performing solutions design including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.

Or equivalent of minimum class qualifications for employment noted above.

Note: The official position description on file with the designated agency is to reflect the required, primary technology directly relating to the duties of the position. only those applicants possessing the experience in the required, primary technology listed in the position description & job posting are to be considered for any vacancies posted. The job posting must list the required technology commensurate with the position in question.

Job Skills: Information Technology

Primary Technology: Microsoft Azure

Major Worker Characteristics:

Knowledge of oral & written communication tools & techniques, customer support & personal service technical writing & documentation practices, state & Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) policy, procedures & applicable laws*, vision, mission & goals of BWC*, mathematic principles relative to assigned area in IT (Information Technology), awareness of access management, Networking, firewall, IT principles, methods & practices in assigned specialty area, software distribution & configuration management tools & mechanisms, organizations operation environment, back-up & recovery techniques, performance monitoring methods, VNets, Private Endpoints, SubNets, PaaS (Platform as a Service), App Services, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Service Bus, Event Grid, Bicep & Arm Templates, installation & configuration procedures, system administration methods & procedures, operating systems installation & configuration procedures, technology design, technology design techniques, structured analysis principles, cost-benefit analysis methods, interrelationships of multiple IT specialties.

Skill in reading comprehension, speaking, service orientation, installation, documentation, troubleshooting, critical thinking, operation monitoring, judgment & decision making, systems analysis, systems evaluations, operation analysis, identifying & specifying business requirements, using data recovery tools & techniques & systems evaluation, complex problem solving, assuring quality & lead work.

Ability to prioritize, prepare meaningful, accurate & concise reports, stay abreast of current technologies in area of IT assigned, define problems, collect data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions, provide expert technical advice, guidance, & recommendations to management & other technical specialists on critical IT issues. Developed after employment

Unusual Working Conditions:

Overtime may be required.

May be required to provide off hours support, either prescheduled or on an emergency basis.

May be required to work during evenings or weekends.