Northpoint - Microsoft Azure Technologies Specialist - #450026

Backed by Laurentian Bank

With Northpoint's foundation and reputation in the industry built, Laurentian Bank, which has been in business for over 170 years, acquired Northpoint Financial in 2017. With over $45 billion* in assets, a solid cultural alignment and variety of financing solutions, Laurentian Bank ensures stability for the foreseeable future while allowing Northpoint Financial to maintain its personal, flexible approach.

Northpoint Commercial Finance offers businesses across North America personal, flexible financing options such as inventory finance and asset-based lending to support their business growth needs.

This role sits within Northpoint Commercial Finance. Northpoint Commercial Finance, a subsidiary of Laurentian Bank of Canada, provides expert, flexible and personal inventory financing to dealers and manufacturers across the U.S. and Canada.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Infrastructure & Operations, the Microsoft Technologies Specialist is responsible for the technical design, testing, implementation and support of solutions as part of projects and operational initiatives that support the organizations strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Work with IT Infrastructure, Security and Operations teams to develop technology solutions and project initiatives that meet business needs
• Define and/or validate the solution's technical and functional aspects to ensure compliance with the Bank's business needs and standards.
• At the start of each project, provide high level design, conduct proof of concept exercise, and lead the issues resolution and incident trouble shooting.
• Review existing Infrastructure elements such as Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, Sharepoint, Azure Cloud and provide detailed action plan for improvement.
• Extend adoption and utilization of M365 components within the organization
• Facilitate the remediation of internal and external audits findings in the IT infrastructure
• Ensure compliance with the IT governance guidelines.
• Maintain infrastructure design and configuration repository and share expertise and knowledge of operational and information systems.
• Ensure that CMDB is populated with relevant information and kept up to date with any changes.
  
  

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in IT, including five in Microsoft Cloud technologies
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
• Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals.
• Knowledge of Cloud Management Gateway and Intune
• Knowledge of network and firewalls
• Basic Knowledge of Linux and Unix.
• In depth knowledge of infrastructure services operating on the Microsoft Windows platform (Active Directory, AD Connect, Exchange, O365, ADFS, etc.)
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones
• Good understanding of cloud security controls and frameworks
• Good knowledge of SharePoint
• Good knowledge of security related Microsoft platforms
• Good knowledge of network and telecommunications technologies
• Sound experience in the definition of technology strategies, roadmaps and positioning
• Excellent writing skills and excellent capacity to share technical information
• Strong problem solving skills
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure
• On-call availability
  
  

Assets

• Knowledge of banking
  
  

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