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About The Position

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.