Sr. Technology Consultant-CTJ-Top SecretSCI

We are looking for a Sr Technology Consultant Networking to join Microsoft Federal.

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.

The Microsoft Federal team is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Consultant you will own troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth hone your problem-solving collaboration and research skills and develop your technical proficiency.

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 doing so we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Technical Delivery
The person in this position:
Follows the capacity process outlined by Resource Insights Capacity and Capability (RICC) team.
Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
Participates in project planning and develops project documents by identifying the risks and dependencies.
Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners. Identifies technical business and security risks in programs and proposes mitigations. Assists project managers/architects in preparing for steering committee (e.g. developing artifacts).
Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Generates and delivers Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Proactively manages executive-level customer/partner/stakeholder relationships to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction determine the root cause and establish recovery actions to improve the experience.
Works with account team to ensure One Microsoft approach.
Shares lessons learned with workgroup and consultant community.
Implements solutions and provides oversight and leadership on workstreams across domains while adhering to Industry Solutions processes and security initiatives.
Aligns solutions with the intent of the architecture.
Leads meetings with customers/partners to understand business needs.
Uses business industry security and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions.
Engages others (e.g. EAG Security stakeholders) appropriately to understand and define customer requirements ensuring security is prioritized.
Manages escalations analyzes situations and coordinates appropriate resources to resolve issues by following delivery practices considering cost implications maintaining a security-first mindset and engaging in conversations with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Customer Service and Support Project Manager Solution Architect Product Group) as needed.

Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering Finance Business or related field OR equivalent experience.
3 years leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Security Clearance Requirements:
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret /SCI Security Clearance .
Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role.
Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification :
This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements.
You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification :
This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Specifically this position supports United States federal state and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law.
To meet this legal requirement citizenship will be verified via a valid passport or other approved documents or verified US government clearance.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Programming Skills: Proficiency in programming languages such as Azure Powershell Python Ansible Go
• Experience in deploying networking monitoring tools
• Working knowledge of network design and protocols
• Experience defining alerting and ticketing for large scale networks
• Practical experience in deploying managing and scaling applications with Kubernetes .
• Competence in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub DevOps
• 8570 Certified

Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101800 - $193800 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 $126100 - $207600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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