Fabric Administrator
- Pay rate: $55.00/hour (based on experience)
- Contract Length: 1 year
- Location: Calgary; Hybrid role – in the office Tues, Wed, Thursday
Raise is currently hiring a Project Support Analyst team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our client is responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System.
Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.
Job Overview
Reporting to the Manager, Data and Cloud Compute Services the Fabric Administrator is accountable for configuring, securing, monitoring, and governing Microsoft Fabric at the tenant level to enable reliable, compliant, and performant data operations across the organization. The administrator will work closely with developers, infrastructure teams and the data team to implement solutions and services in Azure
Responsibilities:
- Configure tenant-wide Fabric settings, workspace defaults, OneLake policies, and feature controls through the Fabric admin portal.
- Provision, manage, and optimize capacity and resource allocations to support Data Engineering, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI workloads.
- Implement and maintain access controls and role assignments using Microsoft Entra ID and Fabric workspace roles to enforce least privilege and delegation models.
- Define and apply governance controls including data sensitivity labels, data loss prevention rules, metadata scanning, and content certification workflows.
- Monitor tenant usage, performance metrics, and system health through the admin monitoring workspace and take corrective actions for bottlenecks or outages.
- Audit and review tenant activity logs and configuration changes to support security investigations, compliance reporting, and incident response.
- Manage integrations and connectivity to external data sources and cloud services, and enable service principals, Azure DevOps integration, and multi-geo support as required.
- Coordinate with platform teams (Cloud, Security, Data Engineering, BI) to onboard workspaces, enforce naming and lifecycle policies, and support migration or adoption projects.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks for common admin tasks, capacity scaling, and escalation procedures.
- Drive adoption, change management, and training for self-service users while governing platform access and capabilities.
- Providing guidance and mentoring to development teams on DevOps principles and best practices
Qualifications:
- 3 – 5 years industry experience
- 5-8 years IT experience
- Preferably having a utilities market or industry background
Education:
- Degree in Computer Science, IT or related field, or a Diploma in IT Administration with equivalent work experience
Desired Experience/Skills:
- Microsoft certifications in Azure, Power Platform, Power BI
- Azure DevOps Certification
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, OneLake
- ITIL Foundation, or other Change and Release Management processes
- Understanding of Software development lifecycle
Application Platforms:
- Azure DevOps
- Microsoft Fabric
- Azure such as API Management, Synapse and other Azure platforms.
- Entra ID
Tools:
- DevOps
- Fabric Portal
- Azure Portal
- Azure Deployment Pipelines
Additional Information
- One year term typically working 40 hours a week.
- Hybrid role – in the office Tues, Wed, Thursday
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