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
- Azure Core Platform: Entra ID, Compute, AI, Storage, Data, Networking
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
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience with Azure Core Platform (Entra ID, Compute, AI, Storage, Data, Networking)
- Deployment automation experience (e.g., Terraform)
- Multi-cloud or multi-tenancy implementation experience
- Experience owning technical deployment projects and acting as technical lead
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Azure certifications (AZ-700, AZ-305, AZ-500, AI-103, DP-203 or DP-700)
- Secret Clearance or ability to be cleared
- US Citizenship (clearable)
- Compliance experience (e.g., NIST, CMMC frameworks)
- Experience with Microsoft Security technology stack
What We Do
Planet Technologies was built around investing in and developing long term relationships with our customers and corporate partners. We work hard to keep our staff trained on the latest technologies, policy and operational issues impacting today’s federal and corporate environments. Being an expert on the technology we support is the first step, more importantly is understanding your business mission and integrating technology into a long term strategic plan. Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft consulting services to public sector and commercial organizations. Our team of Microsoft experts provides support for Office 365, CRM, SharePoint, System Center, SQL, and Windows 7-10. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, records management, workflow automation, collaboration, systems management, virtualization and more. A Global Leader in Microsoft Technologies: Few companies can compare to Planet Technologies when it comes to an established relationship with Microsoft. As a company with a 100% focus on the Microsoft platform, we know Microsoft technologies and we are a trusted partner. As a team of experienced and certified Microsoft consultants and Microsoft trainers, we are the best partner to help your staff get up to speed quickly and cost effectively in order to make your business more productive with your Enterprise Agreement investment. Advanced certifications • Microsoft Partner with five gold and ten silver competencies • CPLS Microsoft certified training Highly skilled staff • Microsoft Certified Solutions Masters (MCSM) • Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) • Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) • Microsoft CRM Rangers • 150+ Microsoft Consultants We are a full-service, independent training company providing a range of IT and developer training services based on Microsoft technologies to individuals and organizations.
