Microsoft Looking for Technology Consultant Landingzone at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Microsoft Industry Solution – India Global Delivery Center (IGDC) delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. An organization of well over 1500+ exceptional people, MS IGD presents a great opportunity for highly skilled services professionals to make a foray into consulting, solution development and delivery roles. The ideal consultant is passionate for technology, has the breadth rather than specific product depth, and has the drive and courage to articulate and stand up for a

great solution delivering true value for the client.

 

As a Microsoft 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 great

solutions 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

• Collaborates with the customer/partner team of Chief Information Officers (CIOs), other C-level executives, and technical and business decision-makers to align customer vision with solutions. Manages risk and Services business goals within large engagements.
• Responsible for technical quality assurance, identification, and mitigation of technical risk across customer or partner deliverables.
• Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions, based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the business objectives of customers and partners.
• Works to accelerate the value proposition of customer or partner engagements by helping to design, develop, and deploy solutions, based on Microsoft technologies and methodologies.
• Applies information-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence.
• Identifies new processes and innovations to help customers or partners build and accelerate capabilities by using Microsoft technologies.
• Defines dependencies and risks that go beyond the immediate scope and timeframe for a complex project. Develops contingency plans, risk-mitigation implementation criteria, and alternative strategies to manage short- and long-term risks.
• Identifies a best practice approach for a project, across a wide scope of technical issues, and develops or reuses intellectual capital with customers, world-wide, and for programs and initiatives across Microsoft.
• Works with practitioners to apply subject matter expertise and ensures that the solution architecture is both consistent and adoptable.
• Contributes perspective and expertise to the development of customer solutions that increase the value proposition for Services.
• Defines the technology strategy for large and complex engagements, so that customers or partners realize the full value of investment. Responsible for implementing the technology strategy.
• Responsible for the overall efficacy and quality of a project team’s technical delivery within his or her engagements.
• Defines engagements and opportunities to use Intellectual Property (IP) and address product gaps, while leveraging existing IP and community resources to ensure consistency and improve predictability.
• Leads the Engineering team and provides accurate time estimates, sets work priorities, and makes project changes and trade-offs necessary for a successful release.
• Drives new ways of thinking, across the division and subsidiary, to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
• Trusted advisor and deep knowledge in implementation
• Passion for customers, learning, having proven ability to be client focused, results-focused, proactive, collaborative and confident under pressure.

Must Have

• Working knowledge of Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Azure IaaS and PaaS in compute, storage and networking – experience of leveraging the same and designing, implementing, and deploying Business Mission Critical applications
• Experience in leading Azure landing zone design and implementation
• Knowledge on Networking – VNet, ExpressRoute, vWAN, Ingress/Egress patterns and services, NVAs.
• Expertise in Azure DevOps and YAML configuration of pipeline
• Experience on any one of – GitHub, GitLab, and Jenkins. General idea of others is fine
• Automation experience using ARM templates/Bicep /Terraform/PowerShell/CLI with experience in deployment of infrastructure in module-based approach.
• Experience in leading large scale cloud migration project teams using tools like Azure Migrate and implementation of Azure monitoring and security best practices is a plus
• Proven hands-on project experience, preferable in large-scale customer environments
• Have experience in multiple sectors and industries
• Solid experience in leading and conducting customer workshops
• Solid customer facing project experience involving solution design, project envisioning, planning, development and deployment of complex solutions
• Knowledge of Cloud platform design principles
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Passion for mentoring, training peers and sharing knowledge
• Good communication skills and presentation skills
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience with a minimum of 3+ years of Azure Infrastructure experience
• Must have a degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience. Higher relevant education preferred.
• Must be Microsoft Azure Administrator certified. Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is a plus.
• Terraform Associate certification will be an added advantage
• Experience in Application development and infrastructure will be an added advantage

Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).

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.