Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), an S&P 500® urban office REIT, is the first and longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, technology and agtech campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations. Founded in 1994, Alexandria pioneered this niche and has since established a significant market presence in key locations, including Greater Boston, San Francisco, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland, and Research Triangle. Alexandria is known for its high-quality and diverse tenant base. Alexandria has a longstanding and proven track record of developing Class A properties clustered in urban life science, technology, and agtech campuses that provide its innovative tenants with highly dynamic and collaborative environments that enhance their ability to successfully recruit and retain world-class talent and inspire productivity, efficiency, creativity, and success. For more information, please visit www.are.com.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions, marital status, registered domestic partner status, family-care status, veteran status, military status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law or ordinance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administration and management of the company's servers, storage and networks including hybrid Azure Active Directory environment, SAN management, and basic network equipment troubleshooting in a manner that ensures a high level of continuity and availability for the organization
• Participate in the infrastructure of digital transformation towards cloud computing
• Develop and implement standardization of cloud infrastructure environments for both IaaS and App services.
• Collaborate with other professionals to ensure high quality deliverables within organization guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Assist in the coordination of various teams testing and evaluating for the development of design and its implementation of the best output
• Deal with process optimization methods, and risk management tools for successful accomplishments according to the requirements of the stakeholders
• Management of hybrid AD infrastructure including security, GPO's, user, system objects and connectivity/replication in a multi-site environment
• Assist with management of network operating systems, virtualization, storage infrastructure, and cloud computing
• Assist with Help Desk overflow and escalation
• Microsoft server platform support and administration, including SQL, SharePoint and other products
• Maintain Azure SaaS, IaaS and PaaS infrastructure
• Create Azure DevOps pipelines
• Azure architecture, deployment and support, new tenant/subscription creation and configuration
• O365 administration (AIP, Intune, and MAM)
• Maintain the overall health of our hybrid exchange environment and assist with decommission of on-premises exchange.
• Support, train, interface and participate with peers, users and vendors as needed
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower human intervention time on repetitive tasks
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Participate in DR plan testing and ongoing tuning
• Maintain and monitor backups and redundancy strategies
• Participate in the design of information and operations support systems
• Implement on-prem or cloud infrastructure technologies
• Participate in proof of concept testing
• Ensure the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science (or commensurate on-the-job experience) desired
• Certifications in Azure Architecture, MCSA/MCSE
• 7 years of experience working as a Systems Engineer/Administrator
• Strong command of current network/server operating systems and applications - specifically Windows Server 2012/2016/2019, Exchange 2016, Azure and M365 SaaS technologies
• Substantial exposure and understanding network protocols and services in a client server environment
• Cloud focused, extensive experience in Azure workloads
• Strong experience in the deployment, support and troubleshooting virtual machines
• Excellent documentation skills
• VMWare, VEEAM and Zerto experience at an enterprise level
• Enterprise level server management
• Technical project/change management
• In depth knowledge of networking concepts and technologies
• Pure Storage and Cisco UCS/Hyperflex administration
• F5 Load balancer administration
• Citrix Administration
• PowerShell, Python, SQL scripting
• ServiceNow integration/administration preferred