Cloud Solution Architecture Cybersecurity-CTJ-Top Secret/SCI

Microsoft • ,

10h • $86,100 - $187,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Microsoft Federal delivers a single unified organization centered around our customer. This organization is a first-of-its-kind for Microsoft, bringing together expertise, knowledge, and insights across our teams. All critical customer functions are brought under the same organizational umbrella, bringing the breadth and depth of our expertise into laser focus on serving the U.S. Federal Government. We are committed to empowering our teams, building upon our strategic investments, and delivering the technology to achieve federal missions. As our customers pursue their work, from defending the nation, to serving its people in challenging times, they look to Microsoft to help them innovate, and they expect end-to-end engagement tailored to their needs. We aspire to: Deliver the best technology to enable mission-critical work. Support fast-paced innovation with the U.S Federal Government. Drive focused, thoughtful, end-to-end delivery tailored to unique customer needs. Continuously advance security processes within our long-standing engagement approach. Develop products with inclusivity and accessibility at the core. Travel is an integral part of this position. You should be willing to travel as is demanded by the needs of our customers and our business. This position requires approximately 50% overnight travel and may require up to 75% overnight travel if you are not within commuting distance to work. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and security, data protection, and privacy are vital pillars in our mission. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging our diverse teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
• Must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
• Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Must verify U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
• Must be able to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience deploying and managing Azure resources including virtual machines, virtual networking, storage accounts, and identity services
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible for automated environment provisioning
• Experience with Azure tenant provisioning, subscription management, and resource governance within managed or enterprise environments
• Understanding of hybrid identity concepts including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Active Directory, and tenant isolation models
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) for modular range component deployment
• Familiarity with Microsoft Sentinel, including workspace configuration, log ingestion, data connectors
• Exposure to Microsoft Defender XDR suite (Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office 365)
• Basic proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for log analysis and telemetry validation
• Experience configuring logging pipelines, diagnostic settings, and monitoring in cloud environments
• Understanding of how telemetry supports detection, analysis, and validation across red and blue team workflows
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (PowerShell, Python, or Bash) for automation and operational tasks
• Experience automating deployment, configuration management, or environment lifecycle tasks
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipeline concepts
• Ability to write and maintain scripts that reduce manual effort and improve deployment consistency
• Willingness to learn

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, integrates, and sustains the cloud and hybrid platforms required to deliver immersive cybersecurity exercises for U.S. Federal and Defense customers.
• Translates exercise and training requirements into working technical solutions spanning infrastructure, security products, automation, deployment tooling, APIs, and supporting services.
• Develops and maintains the technical foundation required to deliver scalable, repeatable, and operationally realistic cyber exercises.
• Designs reusable range architectures, baseline environment templates, identity and access models, telemetry pipelines, and operational guardrails that support both adversary simulation and defender workflows.
• Leads environment readiness validation and post-exercise sustainment, including updates, hardening, and continuous improvements to performance and reliability.
• Contributes to the design, deployment, configuration, and integration of exercise environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, APIs, scripting, and automation.
• Provisions Azure and hybrid resources, implements identity and security configurations, integrates Microsoft and third-party security products, establishes logging and monitoring pipelines, develops automated deployment and configuration processes, and creates supporting infrastructure for adversary simulation and defender operations.
• Ensures environments remain stable, secure, and fully operational to support mission objectives across civilian, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community customers.
• Researches unfamiliar technologies, develops and tests solutions, troubleshoots integration issues, and carries an engineering problem from initial requirement through implementation and sustainment.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level