Networking Technology Consultant-CTJ-TS/SCI
About The Position
Microsoft is seeking a Networking Technology Consultant to support customer and partner engagements, contribute technical networking expertise, and help design and deliver solutions using Microsoft technologies. The role participates in pre-sales, scopes projects, gathers and defines customer requirements, communicates solution value, manages technical and business risks, and delivers work against project plans. It also contributes to intellectual property, operational readiness, customer satisfaction, and opportunities to expand adoption of cloud and Microsoft technologies. The consultant supports complex solution architecture and delivery, including documenting architecture, decisions, requirements, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs. In partnership with project managers, account teams, subject matter experts, and customers, the role helps govern solution design, build, testing, deployment, and transition to operations. It may lead technical discussions, virtual teams, implementation activities, and customer engagements; coordinate specialists; resolve blockers and conflicts; and mentor colleagues. The position requires an active U.S. Government TOP SECRET/SCI clearance, U.S. citizenship verification, and passing Microsoft’s Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 1 year of work experience in a relevant business area.
- Active U.S. Government TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements; the role requires clearance verification and a Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- U.S. citizenship, subject to verification, due to citizenship-based legal restrictions applicable to the government customers supported.
- Ability to follow secure-by-design principles and Microsoft security, privacy, compliance, and delivery processes.
Nice To Haves
- At least 3 years of work experience in a relevant business area.
- Technical certifications relevant to the domain or service line, such as Azure, Security, or Dynamics.
- Delivery management certification, such as Scrum, Agile, Change Management, or Project Management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field and at least 3 years of leadership experience in a relevant business area, or equivalent experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related STEM discipline, or 4 years of equivalent related experience.
- At least 6 years of experience as a network engineer or technical program manager for networks.
- At least 2 years of experience with architecture, deployment, and/or operations of government classified networks; the posting also lists 4+ years of experience with architecture, deployment, and operations of government classified networks.
- Applied experience with Ansible, Splunk, and/or SolarWinds.
- Experience with L2/L3 switching and routing platforms, application networking, and network protocols including BGP, OSPF, VRRP, and LACP.
- At least 2 years of experience with cloud networking implementations, preferably onboarding customer infrastructure to cloud.
- CCNP or higher, or equivalent professional certification; CompTIA Security+ certification.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, including the ability to build relationships across teams, geographies, and business functions.
- Experience working under continual deadline pressure in ambiguous situations.
- Applied experience with firewall, network security, or network monitoring solutions, including Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, and/or Juniper SRX platforms.
- Applied experience with Azure Networking, Azure Kubernetes, YAML scripting, and Bicep ARM.
Responsibilities
- Participate in pre-sales activities and help scope projects using customer and technical expertise in the specialty domain.
- Maintain up-to-date skills and availability in required tools and follow the capacity process outlined by the RICC team.
- Meet with customers and partners to understand business needs, scenarios, requirements, and constraints, engaging appropriate stakeholders and prioritizing security.
- Communicate the business value of proposed solutions and help explain solution differentiation in customer terms.
- Implement technical solutions and assigned project tasks to defined quality standards, oversee aspects of implementation, and deliver against the Work Breakdown Structure.
- Support project planning and documentation by defining risks, dependencies, mitigations, and contingency plans; manage schedule and communicate with project leads.
- Proactively manage customer, partner, and stakeholder relationships, identify satisfaction issues and root causes, and establish recovery actions.
- Follow Microsoft delivery, privacy, security, compliance, operational readiness, and business policies and procedures.
- Use, maintain, and contribute to Microsoft intellectual property, identifying content gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Identify opportunities to expand or accelerate adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies.
- Lead or contribute to technical solution architecture, documenting architecture decisions, requirements and constraints traceability, assumptions, tradeoffs, and solution rationale.
- Work with project managers and customer teams to govern design, build, proof-of-concept and pilot delivery, testing, quality practices, and deployment into live operations.
- Develop and execute test plans to verify requirements and constraints, and collaborate to resolve or document defects and test outcomes.
- Anticipate delivery and pre-sales blockers; coordinate Microsoft teams and specialists to resolve technical and non-technical issues and escalate significant problems when necessary.
- Coordinate complex or disparate approaches into a shared plan, resolve ambiguity, and drive alignment and consensus across internal and external teams.
- Differentiate Microsoft solutions, advise external stakeholders, and maintain current knowledge of Microsoft technologies, products, services, and competitors.
- Build relationships with senior decision-makers and, when appropriate, develop strategic customer relationships and participate in steering committees.
- Participate in external architecture community events and share learnings internally.
- Mentor less experienced colleagues and contribute technical and strategic insights to virtual teams and internal communities.
- Obtain relevant accreditations and certifications as advised by domain leadership.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
