Cloud Engineering Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI

Cloud Engineering Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI

United States, Virginia, Springfield

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200058835

Date posted

Oct 03, 2026

Work site

4 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Consulting Services

Discipline

Technology Consulting

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

As a Cloud Engineering 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 DevOps Server (ADO), Azure Monitor, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containers, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, Microsoft Entra ID, 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 DevOps strategies with customer goals and compliance frameworks.

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

• Technical Delivery
• 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 equivalently described experience