About the position
We are looking to hire a Technical Consultant to join Microsoft Federal. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.
Responsibilities
- Participates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.
- Follows the capacity process outlined by Resource, Insights, Capacity, and Capability (RICC) team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
- Participates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints.
- Supports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance.
- Implements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Industry Solutions processes. Oversees aspects of implementation.
- Proactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders (e.g., Project Managers) as appropriate to address and resolve issues.
- Proactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Networking
- Implementing Network Security in Azure
- Configuring and Managing Azure Virtual Networks
- Azure Networking Concepts
- Terraform, bicep, IaC
- Mission Landing Zones, low-code no-code deployments
- Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects.
- Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies.
- Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by the domain leadership team.
- Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 1+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as code
- Experience in Networking; Technical Design, develop and implementation
- Possess DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification or higher, or able to obtain within the first 60 days of employment
- Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics), or able to obtain within the first 60 days of employment.
- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years work experience in relevant area of business
- Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,200 - $154,400 per year.
- There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $99,700 - $167,300 per year.
