Senior Consultant - CTJ - Top Secret/SCI

at  Microsoft

We are looking to hire a Senior Consultant to join Microsoft Federal.
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 do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.
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.

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business
  o OR equivalent experience.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

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 for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate 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.
Cloud Screening: Candidates must be able to successfully complete and pass a Microsoft Cloud background screening. Required Cloud Screenings will be administered on a recurring bi-annual basis.
Preferred Qualificaitons
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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical competency and experience in one or more of the following areas: Active Directory Domain Services, Active Directory Federated Services, Kubernetes, MS Hyper-V/VMWare, Windows Server Update Services, Azure VPN Gateways, Azure Monitor, Group Policy management and configuration.
• 5+ years related experience in SCI/SAP environments.
• AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert), AZ-600 (Azure Stack Hub), or similar certification.
• CISSP, Security+, or similar certification.
  Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,800 - $189,400 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 $123,200 - $199,400 per year.
  Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 21, 2024.
  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

The Senior Consultant role will be responsible for hands-on onsite automation and improvement of above-baseline software and data migration in air gapped cloud environments. The Senior Consultant will provide systems administrator leadership and management of Azure DevOps, PKI, Active Directory, and application installations and deployments.
This role will help identify and prioritize the migration of workloads into the new air gapped cloud environments, including both on-premises Azure Stack Hub and hyperscale environments. The Senior Consultant will assist in developing, planning, and implementing migration of unstructured data from existing data stores to new environments without the loss of existing data, and deliver capability as-a-service, handling operations, maintenance, security, and modernization.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and develop hypervisor servers/clusters to provide essential services to remote offices, assist in fabric management for cloud integration and migration posturing,
• Analyze and create new designs for an existing Active Directory Infrastructure to streamline and clean up redundant objects and configurations,
• Develop global federation designs for collaboration, merger/acquisition, and high availability/geo-load balanced requirements,
• Leverage Azure, federation services, configuration management, automation, application proxy/edge security, and identity management platforms to coalesce multiple sources of record to converge into persona objects with our clients on premises and cloud service provider footprint.

Other

• Embody our culture and values