Senior Specialist Cybersecurity – Azure Systems Administration

Job Description:

Role Senior Specialist Cybersecurity Azure Systems Administration

Location: Hyderabad / Bengaluru

About the Company:

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Chief Security Office ensures that our assets are safeguarded through truthful transparency enforce accountability and master cybersecurity to stay ahead of threats. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T you wont just imagine the future-youll create it

About the Role:

Our team is seeking an experienced technologist to join our Cybersecurity team. The Azure Systems Administrator will support and enhance our growing cloud infrastructure for existing security products and upcoming initiatives related to AI. This role will focus on Azure system administration disaster recovery planning and execution and identity & access management (IAM) working closely with our compliance and security teams. The candidate must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills be self-motivated have strong communication and documentation skills and a background in computer science data science or engineering with Cybersecurity familiarity.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Individual in this role will

• Administer and maintain Azure resources including Virtual Machines (VMs) storage networking backups and monitoring.

• Assist with the design implementation and testing of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions in Azure.

• Manage and improve Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) including users groups roles policies and Azure Active Directory (AAD/Entra ID).

• Support compliance security tooling and DevOps automation as needed.

• Provide expertise in Azure services such as Virtual Machines Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) App Services Azure SQL and Storage Accounts.

• Ability to leverage Azure and M365 AI Services (e.g. AI Foundry Copilot Studio Power Automate) to enhance organizational processes.

Required Skills:

• Over 8 years experience in Azure systems and related infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of Azure services (VMs Storage Networking Backups Azure Monitor).

• Proven experience administering Azure infrastructure (5-8 years).

• Relevant Azure certifications (e.g. Azure Administrator Associate).

• Expertise in Identity & Access Management (Azure Active Directory Managed Identities OAuth).

• Familiarity with compliance and security best practices in Azure environments.

• Ability to work with DevOps automation tools and processes.

• The candidate must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills be self-motivated and work independently

Desired Skills:

• Self-reliant and diligent in follow-through for assigned tasks

• Ability to work with a geographically disperse team

• Engaged collaborator contributor and team player

• Flexible to provide coverage in US morning hours on a need-basis and as required

• Experience working in an environment where coordination with multiple teams is essential to success

• Ability to prioritize individual/group work in a high-stress and time-bound environment

• Bachelors / Masters degree in data science Information Systems Engineering Mathematics. Computer Science or Cyber Security or equivalent experience.

Additional information (if any):

• Should be flexible to provide coverage in US morning hours

• Should be flexible to provide weekend coverage as required

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It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.