IsoMetrix is a leading integrated risk management software company with offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa. We provide state-of-the-art solutions for ESG, EHS and GRC management.

Backed by the leading private equity firm Carlyle, an investment firm with $293bn of assets under management, SaaS-oriented business model. Crucial to the future success of the business.

Crucial to the future success of the business we are looking for a candidate with suitable qualifications and experience to join our dynamic and passionate team in an IT development environment.

The main purpose of the Job:

Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of the Microsoft Azure landscape including security, back-up, logging, reporting and recovery procedures according to best practices to satisfy business requirements to ensure the hosted environment is operating in an optimal manner according to best practices.

Primary responsibilities:

• Install, deploy and configure public cloud environments on MS Azure
• Provide solutions for Automation across the infrastructure
• When necessary, interact with software vendors to reach problem resolution; this may include opening a service call, providing logs, and responding to advice received by phone call or email
• Provide administration, troubleshooting, maintenance and monitoring of virtualization infrastructure
• Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of the Microsoft Azure landscape including security, backup, logging, reporting and recovery procedures according to best practices
• Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of SQL Server databases including security, backup, logging, reporting and recovery procedures according to best practices
• Install, configure and maintain Microsoft SQL Server in a Windows server environment
• Provide continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, historical and real-time performance monitoring of the MS SQL Server environments
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly data maintenance tasks
• Proficient in setting up and configuring Replication and Always on availability Groups
• Transition from SQL Replication to Always on availability
• IIS Administration and Troubleshooting
• SQL Administration and troubleshooting
• Installation including patches and service packs

Competencies:

• Windows Server platform supporting high availability enterprise systems
• SQL Server 2012 and above Installation and configuration experience with SQL Server, SQL Server Service Packs and Cumulative Updates
• Knowledgeable in SQL server security, maintenance and monitoring
• Thorough understanding of relational database operations and maintenance
• Tuning of database configuration for optimal system performance
• Experience in establishing High Availability configurations including SQL Mirroring, SQL Clustering, Always-On Failover Clustering, Always-On Availability Groups, and log-shipping
• Create and maintain application databases with optimal data file and log file sizes
• 3 years of work experience administration of cloud environments

IT Security:

• MS Azure SSO Authentication, SAML Authentication, LDAP configuration, certificate support, ciphers and protocols configuration, HTTP configuration, etc.

Infrastructure management:

• Microsoft Azure and our self-hosted infrastructure

IT Strategy:

• Brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve Azure and infrastructure implementations
• Adequate disaster recovery strategy, high availability, backup and recovery and successful execution
• Information Systems adoption strategy
• ISO 27 001 support and ongoing compliance
• Supporting DevOps strategy adoption

Minimum education experience:

• Diploma in IT
• Microsoft Certification (MCITP: Database Administrator or MCSE: Data Platform) is a plus
• 5 years experience as a Technical Support Engineer

Additional requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 8/10/11
• Microsoft Server 2008/2012/2016/2019
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Personal attributes:

• Strong communication skills
• A high degree of professionalism
• Attention to detail. High work ethic
• Problem-solver and resolution-orientated
• Team player
• Energetic and able to sustain high-performance levels through difficult times

The IsoMetrix DNA encompasses the following core values and behaviors:

• Own It!
• Do the right thing
• Embrace Ideas
• Win together
• Think Beyond