Senior Consultant, Azure Cloud Solutions - Microsoft Corporation (California)
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Microsoft Consulting Services helps Microsoft customers around the world get the best outcomes from their investments in the latest Microsoft cloud technologies. We focus on empowering customers on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience.
Do you have a passion for creating large scale cloud solutions? Are you interested in helping Microsoft customers create & deploy cutting-edge solutions in Microsoft Azure?
As a Senior Consultant you will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions and business outcomes based on Microsoft Azure. You will have the opportunity to help us create & deliver the next generation of Azure-based Solutions for our most strategic customers. Our Consulting team offers a collaborative culture where you can contribute your knowledge & experience while learning together as we create cutting-edge cloud solutions for our customers.
Responsibilities
+ Customer facing delivery of Azure cloud solutions
+ Demonstrate the ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
+ Ability to deliver results through teamwork while achieving individual billable attainment goals
+ Ability to focus on customers, proven ability to be client focused, create results, proactive, and collaborate with others
+ Demonstrate a passion for mentoring, supporting peers & sharing knowledge
+ Consume and contribute best practices, lessons learned, and intellectual property (IP) to the global Microsoft community with a focus on continuous improvement
+ Foster senior level client relationships and engage with senior level Microsoft and client stakeholders to drive solution success
+ Display strong time, project, and priority management skills
+ Express great communication skills, presentation skills, written skills, customer/partner relationships and expectations management
Qualifications
You will have a deep technical background with 7+ years of technology-related experience, along with 3+ years of Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP experience. You will have in depth expertise in one of the following functional areas:
+ **Azure Kubernetes & Containers** – experience with Docker, Kubctl, shell scripting, Pod design & configuration, operations and monitoring, and container tools such as Prometheus, Twistlock or Sysdig
+ **Azure Advanced Networking** – looking for expertise with Azure Express Route configuration, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP),Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN), Azure Virtual WAN, VNets, Subnets, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Enterprise Scale architecture, Network automation with Python scripting
+ **Azure Security** – experience with Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Center, Azure Policy (JSON), Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Splunk, DevSecOps, Conditional Access and MFA, Compliance frameworks including HIPPA/HITRUST/NIST/PCI
+ **Azure DevOps** – expertise with Azure DevOps, Github, Terraform, ARM Templates, YAML, PowerShell, Python or other scripting language, CI/CD, Unit/UI Testing
Additional Experience:
+ A BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
+ Experience working in a Services organization in a consulting capacity is strongly preferred
+ Experience working on multi-phase global implementations is preferred
+ When Travel resumes: ability to travel 25% to 50%
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .
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