Azure Consultant

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Creates and applies process, creates and delivers documentation, and sets standards across multiple practice areas.

Demonstrate skills required to be the technical Lead and support customer projects.

Will have the ability to implement related technologies and understand their direct dependencies.

Ability to navigate new or unknown technical areas and quickly get up to speed to support customer requirements.

Professional with excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Must have the ability to proactively respond to internal/external questions and collaborate across internal/external teams.

Can solve problems efficiently in complex environments and suggest process improvement or standardization as requested and/or needed.

Demonstrates a proactive approach to help customers make critical decisions around features and capabilities and referring additional products or services within the specific areas of technical competence if needed for the customer.

Must possess the experience and knowledge to effectively articulate escalations and communicate progress to stakeholders, when needed.

Technical Abilities:

Will demonstrate ownership stake in the successful technical delivery of customer projects.

Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies with demonstrated hands-on experience in several of the following domains:

Azure Core Platform: Entra ID, Compute, AI, Storage, Data, Networking

Commercial, Government and Azure Secret

Deployment Automation such as Terraform

Multi-cloud or multi-tenancy experience

Microsoft Security technology stack experience and deep knowledge is highly desired.

Compliance experience such as NIST or CMMC frameworks

Essential Duties:

Owns technical deployment projects by providing oversight of involved technologies, risks and dependencies.

Maps technical requirements into actionable steps to deploy and hand over technical solutions.

Designs and deploys all facets of an Azure environment or a Microsoft Tenant.

Plans and executes end-to-end implementation and supports applicable migrations/deployments of target workloads.

Maintains above average understanding of existing and emerging Microsoft technologies.

Can be a liaison between the technology and customer requirements and communicate accordingly to achieve desired outcomes.

Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

Education/Certifications:

Certifications for Azure

AZ-700 – Azure Network Engineer Associate

AZ-305 – Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Solutions Architect Expert)

AZ-500 – Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate

AI-103 – Azure AI App and Agent Developer Associate

DP-203 – Azure Data Engineer Associate

DP-700 - Fabric Data Engineer

Secret Clearance or ability to be cleared