[Remote] Azure Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planet Technologies is the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, and they are seeking a highly motivated Azure Consultant to support impactful projects. The role involves scoping, planning, designing, and delivering customer implementation projects while leveraging expertise in Azure platforms and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Microsoft Security technology stack experience and deep knowledge is highly desired
• Compliance experience such as NIST or CMMC frameworks

Benefits

• Details about our benefits can be found here Planet Technologies Benefits Guide 2024-2025

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