Systems Administrator / Cloud Operations Engineer
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- Build confident OS, network and identity administration across hybrid environments
- Operate fleets consistently with patching, configuration and automation
- Own reliability, resilience and secure hybrid operations at scale
Benchmark: Koniag Server/Cloud Operations Engineer + current Azure Arc hybrid-operations and cloud-governance practice (current Sep 2026) Current bar: Windows/Linux administration; identity, DNS and networking; AWS/Azure/hybrid operations; fleet inventory; patch/configuration; PowerShell/Bash/Python; Ansible and IaC; monitoring/SLOs; backup/DR; security baselines; ITSM/on-call; capacity, cost and lifecycle modernization.
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Build confident OS, network and identity administration across hybrid environments
Operating systems, services + networking fundamentals
Coverage: Windows/Linux / processes-services / filesystems / permissions / TCP-IP / DNS / troubleshooting
Identity, access + hybrid server administration
Coverage: AD/Entra / users-groups / RBAC / MFA / hybrid identity / remote admin / inventory
Operate fleets consistently with patching, configuration and automation
Fleet management, patching + configuration compliance
Coverage: Systems Manager / inventory / maintenance windows / patch baselines / vulnerability remediation / drift
Automation, scripting + infrastructure as code
Coverage: PowerShell/Bash/Python / Ansible / Terraform / Git / reusable provisioning / configuration automation
Own reliability, resilience and secure hybrid operations at scale
Monitoring, SLOs + incident/service operations
Coverage: metrics-logs-traces / alerts / SLOs / on-call / runbooks / ITSM / postmortems / capacity signals
Security, recovery + fleet lifecycle economics
Coverage: least privilege / baselines / patch-vulnerability / backup-restore / DR / capacity / lifecycle / cloud cost
Role-Readiness Proof / Capstone
Complete a 5-day Hybrid Cloud Operations Lab: provision Windows and Linux systems; configure identity/RBAC, DNS and network access; onboard inventory; define patch and maintenance workflows; automate configuration with Ansible and Terraform; add logs/metrics/traces and SLOs; create backup/restore and DR tests; run an incident and rollback drill; apply security/compliance checks; build a capacity/cost view; then publish operator runbooks and an executive reliability readout.
Proof Rubric
- Demonstrate OS/network/identity fluency
- repeatable provisioning and configuration
- patch and vulnerability evidence
- IaC and source-control discipline
- useful observability/SLOs
- incident diagnosis and recovery
- least privilege
- verified backup/restore
- ITSM/change/runbook discipline
- capacity/cost awareness
- and measurable availability, risk or toil improvement