SaaS Azure Admin(Job No 530)

Description:

• Support the continued administration, management, documentation, training, and enhancement of the managed SaaS solutions that are owned by the DevOps Platform team.
• Develop specified application components, enhancements, or automation scripts, as needed.
• Track and support the propagation of updates, new features, capabilities, usage, and licensing for one or multiple SaaS solutions.
• Evaluate and compare competitive tools on a regular cadence to ensure the investments Allegion has made continue to yield maximum benefit.
• Advocate for the implementation and utilization of best practices across the enterprise.
• Analyze existing business processes and software for potential design improvements.
• Work across Enterprise teams to implement automation and optimizations to minimize overhead costs and scale the capabilities of the team to own and manage additional tools.
• Communicate technical capabilities of tools to engineering teams, and also how those capabilities relate to business objectives to all levels of the organization through documentation, training, and awareness.
• Advocate for and ensure security and data privacy of all applications and data storage.
• Help to clarify, identify, and ensure hand off requirements and project issues and escalate appropriately where required
• Limited travel is required

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience managing or supporting large Enterprise SaaS tools such as SonarQube, Black Duck, Azure DevOps, or Github Enterprise.
• Experience creating internal documentation relied upon by a wide variety of end users.
• Have a passion for technology and willingness to explore and adopt emerging technologies for practical business purposes
• Experience with a modern general-purpose object-oriented language such as C# or Java and/or experience in a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular or React is a plus.
• A positive attitude working with an agile team to develop innovative technical solutions built on a secure foundation that enable business growth, more reliable customer interactions, and improved customer satisfaction
• Be apt at understanding new business domains and be creative and thoughtful about applying technology to improve processes and issues
• Is comfortable contributing to the design and implementation of team and company-wide processes.
• Ability to quickly build proof-of-concept solutions that are forwarding looking to how they could be implemented on a larger scale
• Demonstrated experience modelling the innovation behaviours of questioning, observing, experimenting, networking, and associating
• Mentor and share knowledge with team members and across the Allegion IT teams.
• Verbal and written communication, with various team members in roles that are both technical and non-technical particularly to give direction or present business value of various initiatives to leadership
• Proactively work to coordinate efforts with employees at all levels including internal business partners, other technology teams, external suppliers/consultants, service providers, etc.
• Ability to collaborate with global teams
• Ability to identify issues, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge in software and solution architecture
• Experience designing applications that collectively integrate custom software, cloud architectures and commercial off-the-self software, and possess a keen awareness of the services available and benefits or trade-offs of each paradigm
• Demonstrated knowledge in software development methodologies and best practices, application lifecycle management, and development and automation tooling

Desired Skills and Abilities

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of DevOps principles

Required Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or information technology
• 5+ years of experience in the administering, automating, managing, and integrating enterprise SaaS applications with internal and external tools