Azure Platforms Administrator

Overview:
Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

**The Role**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Azure Platform Administrator (known internally as Technical Analyst) to join our Technical Services team within the Chief Information Office on a permanent contract. The Azure Platform Administrator will provide both project management, engineering and guidance on technical aspects of developments and modifications to IT systems. You will ensure that existing and planned information systems and infrastructure are compatible with relevant company technical strategies, policies and standards.

**Responsibilities**:
As our Azure Platform Administrator, some of your day to day duties will include...
- Implement and document solutions that take advantage of internal and external service’s infrastructure directly and indirectly working with managed service partners and ensure service-take on to the infrastructure managed services
- Translate business and IT requirements into practical terms that can be implemented by existing or new technology
- Prepare and maintain realistic project, quality, and risk plans and monitors performance against each plan, providing reports to customer/user, management and senior management as required.
- Develop and maintain the direction of the technical infrastructure reflecting developments in technology and products, current best practice, responding to new business demands and opportunities and in line with the company’s IT strategy and the overall technical architecture.
- Provide expert advice, support and guidance to the systems development groups regarding the appropriate infrastructure required to support new developments and to act as technical infrastructure design authority on development projects.
- Provide technical Quality Assurance on all proposals for changes or enhancements to the infrastructure environment to ensure compliance with standards and consistency with the overall technical architecture and strategy
- Provide structured and documented evaluations of new technologies and products required as part of the company’s systems infrastructure to determine how these can be used to support the business objectives.
- Provide appropriate reporting to IT management and business units regarding progress on technical projects and any issues associated with the environment.
- Identify opportunities for optimising the set-up and configuration of systems and networks in order to improve the level of service provided to the business either through increased reliability, performance or functionality.
- The salary for this position is circa £60,000 per annum, depending on experience._

About you:
At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:
In-depth hands-on technical expertise in the following Windows environments:

- Azure on-premise server re-platforming journey end-to-end
- Azure Cloud IaaS/PaaS services and On-premise VMs and backup/recovery and security
- ARM Templates & PowerShell utilising Azure DevOps repositories
- Web technologies and IIS
- Active Directory and Azure Active Directory

Working knowledge of Change Management and Service Delivery Industry best practice (e.g.ITIL)

**What’s in it for you?**

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:
- We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference- We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity- We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact- We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
- We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
- We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
- Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to two months of the year
- Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

**The Process**

Our interview process for this role is simple:
- First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.- Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.

**Location**

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.

To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will