Azure Consultant

Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as an Azure Consultant. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that benefit our country. The Azure Consultant is responsible for the scoping, assessing, planning, leading, designing, delivering, testing, and creating supporting technical documentation for the customer implementation projects, supporting, and migrating workloads to enterprise cloud platform solutions. The Azure Consultant possesses and maintains wide knowledge in Azure platforms and Entra ID and comparable or competing technologies utilizing that knowledge to inspire and inform customers, coworkers, and strategic partners. Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: 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. Technical Abilities: 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 Microsoft Security technology stack experience and deep knowledge is highly desired. Compliance experience such as NIST or CMMC frameworks Essential Duties: 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. Education/Certifications: 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 We are looking for rock stars to join our collaborative team. Are you driven by satisfaction in a job well done? If so, you may be a match. If you feel you have the drive, knowledge, and skills to be successful in this role, we want to hear from you today! Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies. Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Federal Agency Clearance Requirements may require up to a 10-year background investigation - US Citizenship (clearable) is required. Salaries for Consultants at Planet Technologies range from $120,000 and $210,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc. Visit www.go-planet.com to learn more. Details about our benefits can be found here Planet Technologies Benefits Guide 2024-2025