DevOps Consultant - CTJ - TS​/SCI Security Clearance

Position: DevOps Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI with Security Clearance
Overview As a Dev Ops Consultant on the development team, you will partner with customers and their integrators to modernize infrastructure and accelerate cloud adoption. You'll design and implement secure, scalable, and automated solutions in Microsoft Azure-migrating from on-premises environments and guiding them through integration strategies that optimize workload performance, scalability, and operational efficiency in the cloud. Your work will leverage Azure technologies such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with BICEP, Azure Dev Ops Server (ADO), Azure Monitor, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containers, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, Microsoft Entra , Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

Experience with related on-premises technologies and Azure hybrid design is desired. Candidates should be well versed in proactively moving forward solutions through organizational processes and working across customer and internal teams. This opportunity will allow you to:

- Accelerate your career growth by leading complex cloud transformation initiatives.

- Hone your skills in cloud-native technologies and secure automation practices.

- Develop deep business acumen by aligning Dev Ops strategies with customer goals and compliance frameworks. 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. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities - Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints - Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud - Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform - Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer - Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impactand proposes mitigations and contingencies - Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues - Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Qualifications:

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 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.

- Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon…