IT System Administration - Journey Azure

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

IT System Administration Journey (Azure)
$85764 $115344annually

Closes April 252025

The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) seeks to fill an Azure Administrator Journey position. This fulltime position is based in Olympia Washington. This position may be eligible for partial teleworking up to two days a week. Telework is a combination of inbuilding and offsite days. We encourage interested candidates to visit the OSPI website to gain insight into our agency.

About OSPI and our initiatives

OSPI is the primary agency charged with overseeing public K12 education in Washington state. Working with the states 295 public school districts and 7 statetribal education compact schools OSPI allocates funding and provides tools resources and technical assistance so every student in Washington is provided with a highquality public education.

At OSPI we recognize that our employees are the key to the success of the agency. We are committed to our work but value the balance with our personal lives. We demonstrate our commitment to employees by providing an environment that stimulates professional growth and values them for their expertise. OSPI is a great place to work and has several initiatives to help create a great working environment including:

• We support a healthy work/life balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules and mobile and telework options. (Depending on job duties and work location.
• We have a tuition assistance policy and support employees seeking tuition waiver through participating higher education organizations.
• We have an Infant at Work Program that is based on longterm values of newborns and infantparent bonding. Eligible employees who are new parents or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when returning to work. (Depending on job duties and work location.
• We value and are actively involved in promoting diversity equity and inclusion within OSPI by way of crossdivisional collaborative committee. The focus of the committee includes employee engagement and education; reinforcing OSPI values; and maximizing the value of diversity and identifying strategies for inclusion.

Vision Mission and Values

Vision: All students prepared for postsecondary pathways careers and civic engagement.

Mission: Transform K12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equitybased policies and supports that empower educators families and communities.

Values: Ensuring Equity Collaboration and Service Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement Focus on the Whole Child

Equity

Each student family and community possess strengths and cultural knowledge that benefits their peers educators and schools. Ensuring educational equity:

• Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color students living in poverty students receiving special education and English Learner services students who identify as LGBTQ and highly mobile student populations.

• Requires education leaders to develop an understanding of historical contexts; engage students families and community representatives as partners in decisionmaking; and actively dismantle systemic barriers replacing them with policies and practices that ensure all students have access to the instruction and support they need to succeed in our schools.

Position Overview

The Azure System Administrator is part of a team that works with a variety of programs that support school districts across the state. You will learn about our systems and customers to provide services used in delivering funding policy and equity to school districts across the state.

You will be responsible for managing and maintaining the organizations Azure cloud infrastructure and resources. You will ensure the availability performance and security of cloud resources supporting the organizations mission and goals by providing reliable and scalable cloud services.

Key Responsibilities(highlights)

You will have a range of responsibilities related to Azure Management and conferencing:

• Manage integrations between Azure resources and onpremises infrastructure ensuring seamless operations.
• Manage the MDM software infrastructure with Azure tools that facilitate automated configuration of cell phones.

• Deploy and manage cloud applications virtual machines and features using Azure App Service. (i.e. file services identity management Azure key vault).

• Monitoring Performance Optimization and Automation.

• Implement and monitor Azure Diagnostics to track logs and analyze performance metrics.
• Develop and manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for infrastructure provisioning.
• Create automated workflows using Azure Functions PaaS and SaaS solutions.

• Security Management and Compliance.
• Administer multifactor authentication (MFA) conditional access policies and identity protection using Azure Active Directory.
• Implement and enforce Azure Policies to ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Assist the Security Engineer to implement their direction and policies.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery.
• Implement and manage Azure Backup to ensure data and virtual machines are backed up.
• Configure Azure Site Recovery for business continuity and disaster recovery.

• Implement and manage data retention policies to comply with organizational and regulatory requirements.

• Voice Communications and Web Conferencing Support.
• Configure and manage desktop phones to ensure seamless voice and video communication.
• Prepare and submit detailed purchase requests for desktop phones to meet program and agencies needs.

• A bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or Information Technology. Working experience may be substituted for education year for year.

AND

• And two 2 years of information technology experience such as consulting analyzing designing programming installing and maintaining computer software applications hardware or network infrastructure equipment in information technology. This is in addition to formal training education or the years of experience above.

Desired Qualifications:

In addition to the required skills well recognize some of your other skills too:

• Experience with automation tools (e.g. PowerShell Azure CLI).
• Knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Management of Azure storage

Compensation
The annual compensation for the position is$85764 and $115344per year and depends upon experience educational background and qualifications. Geographic differentials may be applied based on work location of successful candidate. Washington State offers a generous benefit package including health dental and life insurance retirement and an optional deferred compensation program. Please visitHealth Care Authorityfor information regarding health benefits and theDepartment of Retirement Systemsfor retirement plan information. This position is represented by a bargaining unit.

Application Process

Those interested in this position must apply through. Applications must include the following documents in MS Word and PDF format only:

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Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may contact the Human Resources Office atoror email .

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OSPI is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from job seekers who will contribute to our diversity. OSPI provides equal access to all programs and services without discrimination based on sex race creed religion color national origin age honorably discharged veteran or military status sexual orientation including gender expression or identity the presence of any sensory mental or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a you would like please include your name and gender pronouns in your application to ensure we address you appropriately throughout the application process. Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may contact the human resource consultant listed in Application Process.