Join the team that is repowering America.

National Grid Renewables, which includes the renewables development company formerly known as Geronimo Energy, is a leading North American renewable energy company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with satellite offices located in the regions where it develops, constructs, and operates renewable energy projects. As a farmer-friendly and community focused company, National Grid Renewables develops projects for corporations and utilities that seek to repower America’s electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable future. National Grid Renewables is part of the competitive, unregulated Ventures division of National Grid and has a portfolio of solar, wind, and energy storage projects located throughout the United States in various stages of development, construction and operation.

National Grid Renewables develops high value, competitive renewable energy projects. Our focus on communities and farmers means it’s not just about projects, but about the people we work with, both outside and inside our organization. National Grid Renewables Team Members embody our foundational culture of being entrepreneurial, creative, and nimble and take pride in supporting National Grid’s vision to be at the heart of a clean, fair and affordable energy future for all.

National Grid Renewables is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator to join our growing IT Operations Team. This role will provide the technical knowledge necessary to drive forward our organization's cloud-based infrastructure initiatives as we align our processes and technologies.

What You Will Actually Do:

• Configure, monitor and maintain a hybrid infrastructure environment consisting of Microsoft and MacOS on-premise endpoints and Microsoft Azure, AWS, Oracle infrastructures and various PaaS/SaaS applications
• Define controls for configuring and monitoring solutions in Azure AD, Azure cloud, and various PaaS/SaaS services
• Assist with reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage with Cost and Reporting
• Develop, configure, implement, and manage the systems that comprise the underlying cloud platform
• Assist with Azure/ AWS and other cloud environment implementations via Admin portal, PowerShell, or other scripting tools (e.g. Bash, Python, etc.)
• Coordinate with vendors for technical support and upgrades
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all platforms, resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, service upgrades, software patches, and resource optimization as required
• Be an escalation point for Help Desk tickets and projects
• Collaborate with other members of the IT Operations team on shared technical knowledge and experience
• Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks
• Create, modify, and disable Azure AD and Office365 accounts as needed. Enable automation wherever possible
• Coordinate and collaborate with team members and service stakeholders
• Perform regular systems hardening to maintain security standards
• Conduct after-hours maintenance as needed
   

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform periodic assessment against defined security policies.
• Perform regular, periodic reviews of any security testing (e.g. penetration tests, audit logs, validate controls, etc.).
• Deploy applications and controls as part of the configuration/patch management lifecycle.
• Deploy minimum security baseline configurations as well as the controls monitoring functions.
• Perform additional tasks, as required, for assigned projects.

What You Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor's degree in Management/Computer Information Systems (MIS/CIS), Computer/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Seven or more years in a technology-related field, with a minimum of 3 years in Systems Administration.
• Preferable IT certifications (CompTIA Cloud+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals MCSE) highly desired.
• 3-5 years configuring, monitoring and maintaining a hybrid infrastructure environment consisting of Microsoft and MacOS on-premise endpoints and Microsoft Azure, AWS, Oracle infrastructures and various PaaS/SaaS applications.