• Graduate of BS Computer Science, or any equivalent courses
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in the related field.
• Minimum 2 years working experience in Microsoft services and software like Active Directory, Skype for Business, and Exchange Online
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong analytics skills proving and solving issues with evidence.
• Able to work in a team and independently.
• Highly developed organizational skills and an ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Azure Active Directory management and security best practices
• Experience with manual and automated security administration, remediation, and hardening.
• Experience administering Microsoft Windows and Linux in a production environment.
• Experience with PowerShell and Unix-shell for automation and system administration
• Experience deploying web applications using IIS, NGINX or similar.
• Experience managing physical and cloud storage solutions.
• Cloud Methodologies like PaaS and SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Experience using load balancing techniques for highly available web applications.
• Knowledge of agile development/SDLC processes and hands on participation in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives with US and Cebu teams.

Knowledge & Experience with the following are not required but will give an advantage:

• Configuration management and/or infrastructure-as-a-code platforms such as Ansible and Terraform
• Hands-on experience in various aspects of cloud computing (compute, CI/CD, containers, storage, platforms, data, networking, and security)

• Version control systems like GitLab, GitHub (Branching Strategies)
• Collaboration, tracking and documentation - JIRA, Confluence
• Data logging, parsing and visualization platforms such as ELK.

• Application monitoring and logging - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog
• VMware ESXi hypervisor
• Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) security appliance and Cisco AnyConnect VPN (Virtual Private Network) software
• AWS VPN configuration and security practices
• Networking concepts - Access Control Lists, Bastion Hosts, Reverse Proxies, Forward Proxies, Load balancing
• Familiarity with VOIP including the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) protocol.
• Any of the platform certifications, such as: RHEL, MCSE, MCITP, MCSA, AWS, Azure, GCP