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Azure Admin is one of the most in-demand roles in tech right now — and most people have no idea how to break into it. Here's the honest guide nobody hands you when you start searching. A colleague of mine spent three years in a help desk role. She was good at her job — resetting passwords, troubleshooting laptops, logging tickets. But she kept watching her company's cloud team get bigger while her team stayed flat. One day she asked a cloud engineer what he actually did all day. He said: "Mostly I make sure things don't break. When they do, I fix them. I also build the stuff that keeps them from breaking again." She spent six months learning Azure on the side, passed her AZ-104, and landed a cloud admin role that paid $40,000 more than her old job. That's not a feel-good story. That's what happens when someone understands what an Azure admin actually does — and then learns how to do it. Key Takeaways Azure Admin professionals manage Micros...