Senior Consultant Cloud Infra & AI
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Job Summary
Microsoft Industry Solution -Global Center for Innovation and Delivery (GCID)delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. An organization of well over 1000 exceptional people MSGCIDpresentsa great opportunityfor highly skilled services professionals to make a foray into consulting solutiondevelopmentand delivery roles. The ideal consultant is passionateabouttechnology hasbreadthrather than specific product depth and has the drive and courage to articulate and stand up for agreat solution delivering true value for the client.
As a Microsoft Sr consultant you will deliver quality engagements with your expertise either as an advisor reviewer contributor or resource in high profile projects to ensure customer value. The ideal candidate must have the ability to combine their technical skills creativity and customer focus to deliver greatsolutions to the customers and ensure they get the best out of our technologies and solutions. Consulting Delivery professionals bring subject matter and solution expertise to architectural teams customers and partners. They apply deep technical and business knowledge to accelerate the adoption of Microsoft devices and services by ensuring strategic architectural and operational alignment to customer and partner
Responsibilities
As afull Stack Infrastructure Consultant design build andoptimizeendtoendcloud andonpremisesinfrastructure solutions ensuring secure scalable andhighperformingenvironments across the entire technology stack.
Responsible for technical quality assurance identification and mitigation of technical risk across customer or partner deliverablesdelivery technology strategy aligned solutions
Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the businessobjectivesof customers and partners.
Appliesinformation-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence.
Identifiesnew processes and innovations to help customers or partners build and accelerate capabilities by using Microsoft technologies.
Identifiesthe bestpractice approach for a project across a wide scope of technical issues and develops or reuses intellectual capital with customers world-wideand forprograms and initiatives across Microsoft.
Defines engagements and opportunities to use Intellectual Property (IP) and address product gaps whileleveragingexisting IP and community resources to ensure consistency and improve predictability.
Qualifications
- 9-13 years of industry experience with a minimum of 9 years of Azure Infrastructure experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or equivalent professional experience; advanced technical certifications or higher education preferred.
- Mandatory Microsoft Azure Administrator certification (AZ104); Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ305) highly preferred.
- Terraform Associate certificationstronglyvalued with proven experience inInfrastructureasCode(IaC) automation.
- Cloud AI certification such as Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI900) or equivalent is a strong advantage with practical understanding of AI/ML workloads on cloud platforms.
- Experience across both application architecture and cloud infrastructure domains with the ability to bridge development and operations teams effectively.
AI First Infrastructure Skills
- Proficiencyin Python for automation AI integration and scripting across infra workflows
- Experience with Azure AI Services (AI Foundry AI Agent services Azure AI Search Vision Speech Translation)leveragedas infrastructure components for applications
- Understanding of containerized AI workloads with strong hands-onexpertisein AI Developer Tools from Microsoft- Visual Studio GitHub Copilot Azure AI Studio Azure AI Foundry or similar third-party
- Ability to integrateOpenAI/Frontier modelsinto cloud environments with secure and scalable infrastructure patterns (from applied AI delivery examples)
Azure Cloud Strategy Networking andDevops
Cloud Strategy & Architecture
- Strong working knowledge of Microsofts Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
- Proven experience in designing implementing and deploying Azure Landing Zones.
Landing Zone and Networking
- Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS services acrosscompute storage and networking.
- Expertiseindeploying business mission-critical applications on Azure.
- In-depth knowledge of Azure networking components includingVNet ExpressRoutevWAN ingress/egress patterns and Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs)
DevOps & Automation
- Proficiencyin Azure DevOps including YAML-based pipeline configuration.
- Experience with at least one CI/CD platform: GitHub GitLab or Jenkins (working knowledge of others is a plus).
- Strong automation skills using ARM templates Bicep Terraform PowerShell and Azure CLI.
- Experience deploying infrastructure using a modular reusable approach.
Multi Cloud Migration & Modernization
- Multi-Cloud Migration experience. Hands-on experience in AWS or GCP to Azure migration.
- Experiencewithlarge-scale cloud migration projects using tools like Azure Migrate.
- Familiarity with all stages of the migration lifecycle including assessment planning execution and optimization.
- Experience with container migration and modernization initiatives.
Infrastructure Security and Zero Trust Practices
- Strong command of network segmentation NSGs Azure Firewall Private Link VPN/ExpressRoute security and Zero Trust networking.
- Implement secure connectivity and encrypted network flows across hybrid and cloud environments.
- Implement Azure Policy Blueprints governance guardrails andsecurebydesignpatterns.
- Experience in meeting compliance standards and performing cloud security assessments.
- Deploysecure landing zones followingCAF & WAF(Cloud AdoptionFramework &WellArchitectedFramework)principles ensuring governance resiliency and secure adoption paths
- Ensuringalignment with industry frameworks like Zero Trust principles
Consulting & Delivery Mindset
- Strong interest in continuous learning and technical certifications
- Curiosity to explore emerging data and AI technologies
- Willingness to receive feedback grow technical depth and expand ownership over time
- Demonstrated success indeliveringcustomer-facing projects in large-scale enterprise environments
- Experience conducting technical workshops envisioning sessions and solution design engagements.
- Exposure to multiple industries and sectors with the ability to tailor solutions to diverse business needs.
- Strong communicationand presentation skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Passion for mentoring knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
- Proven adaptability to new technologies and evolving customer requirements.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Embody ourcultureandvalues
This 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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