Intellectual Property Management
Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects. Proactively assists in the creation of intellectual property content and seeks areas that are available for more IP. Communicates areas that need refreshing or gaps in intellectual property. Provides feedback for continuous improvement.
Operational Excellence
Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy while maintaining adherence to security standards through Delivery Compliance, Privacy, and Security (DCPS). Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).
Pre-Sales Support
Participates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.
Readiness
Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends and evaluates their impact on security posture, revisiting the Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Learning Portfolio for Security to deepen understanding of security considerations. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by the domain leadership team. Shares experiences, best practices, and product news within the team. Participates in relevant technical communities at Microsoft.
Technical Delivery
Participates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, security, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints. Engages others (e.g., EAG Security stakeholders) appropriately to understand and define customer requirements, ensuring security is prioritized.
Proactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders (e.g., Project Managers) as appropriate to address and resolve issues while maintaining a security-first mindset.
Implements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Industry Solutions processes and security initiatives. Oversees aspects of implementation.
Follows the capacity process outlined by Resource, Insights, Capacity, and Capability (RICC) team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
Proactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience.
Supports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance. Implements mitigations on technical, business, and security risks. Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Delivers against Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Additional Responsibilities
Join our Cloud Engineering team as an individual contributor to build in-house solutions and applications for Microsoft Federal. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge software that meets the unique needs of our federal clients, while articulating value propositions for strategic Microsoft products and services.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable Kubernetes microservices using Node.js / Python / C#
Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with Azure services, including Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and Redis.
Build event-driven architectures using message queuing technologies (e.g., Azure Service Bus) to manage transfer states and enable efficient system decoupling
Build robust logging and monitoring systems, leveraging tools like Application Insights and Log Analytics
Advanced storage patterns and practices to efficiently manage high concurrency transfers
Design and develop intuitive, user-friendly interfaces using React to enhance user experience across a modern, cloud-native web platform
Design, implement, and optimize data models and queries in Azure Cosmos DB, ensuring efficient storage, high performance, and scalability for large-scale, concurrent data operations
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 Requirements
- 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:
- Classified as Microsoft Confidential
- 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 hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or preferred qualifications
3+ years work experience in relevant area of business.
Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).
Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).
5 years plus years of software engineering and technical experience in a relevant business area.
Possession of technical certifications in specific domains or service lines, such as Azure or Security.
Expertise in using Bicep or similar domain-specific languages for Azure infrastructure as code.
Practical experience in deploying, managing, and scaling applications with Kubernetes.
Strong understanding of Microservice Architecture and related Design Patterns.
Proficiency in developing and maintaining applications using Node.js / Python / C#.
Competence in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub DevOps.
Familiarity with containerization and managing Docker containers.
Knowledge of Azure Graph API for managing Azure resources.
Experience in implementing and managing security measures with Windows Defender or similar tools.
Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,800 - $193,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $126,100 - $207,600 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
