Microsoft Looking For Senior Customer Engineer – CTJ at Reston, VA Full Time

Are you excited about working directly with Microsoft government customers and partners to ensure success as they move forward with cloud computing? Do you want to be part of an engineering team that is looking to get a new service off the ground? If so, keep reading!

We are the Azure Customer Experience (CXP) organization – a fast growing Engineering team of customer-obsessed & passionate individuals that drive positive customer outcomes and experiences.

FastTrack (FT) Engineering for Azure is our newest initiative; a customer success service to help customers confidently onboard to Azure and putting them on the right track to build it right, architect it right, the first time. FT takes a solution-centric approach and provides customers with Engineering resources, standard methodologies, tools and additional resources that help drive Azure usage.

We are looking for thoughtful, analytical and high energy Azure FastTrack Engineers with a passion for Azure IaaS. These Engineers will be focused on working with large enterprise customers to successfully deliver complex migration projects and drive future product enhancements based on customer feedback and learnings.

Location Details:
This is a remote role responsible for customers in our Washington, DC region and will work out of a home office based in this region.

Some travel might be required up to 25% for onsite customer deliveries and meetings.

Responsibilities

Areas of responsibility include:
You will partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect and deliver complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, moving customers from on-premises VMWare to Azure VMWare Solution.

Helping customers migrate and/or build workloads throughout their Azure journey toward production and expanding their cloud footprint.

Directly engage with customers to validate new solutions and POC’s; update modules per learnings and feedback.

Be a thought leader and share knowledge with others through management best practices, solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions and create training.

Act as the subject matter expert across one or more core IaaS and PaaS Azure solutions like VMWare, Azure VMware Solutions (AVS), DR & Backup, SAP on Azure, RedHat, High Performance Computing, Predictive analytics apps, Common Data Service (CDS), and IoT applications.

Staying current on latest Azure/Cloud innovations in order to conduct experiments, drive product improvement, and act as subject matter trainer for other engineers.

Interact daily with other FastTrack Engineers to provide technical action plans or take ownership of situations that require escalation.

You will partner with various Azure Engineering subject matter experts to scope and build customer facing content, modules, tools and proof of concepts.

Successful Candidate Competencies:
Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMWare’s Core Cloud Infrastructure

VMware vSAN, vSphere 7/6.7/6.5/6/5/4, VMware HCX, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vCloud Director, vSphere Replication, SRM, Horizon View, App Volumes, Horizon Apps, Vcenter/SSO, VMware Work Space One, vRealize Log Insight, High Availability (HA), VMware Workspace One Access, VMware NSX-T/NSX-V – Migrations to NSX, NSX implementation, Load Balancing, Micro Segmentation, NSX DNS, DHCP, NSX Routing and Switching/Gateways, NSX Intelligence

Virtualization Infrastructure support VMware on ESX 3.5,4.0, ESXi4.1,5-5.5 and Vsphere 6

Azure solutions development and deployment experience

Familiarity with cloud deployment and development tools (ie. PowerShell, Visual Studio, .NET, Python)

Familiarity with cloud networking concepts, connectivity (geo-redundancy, CDN, VPN) and tools

Customer and Partner Focus: proven experience driving business impact based on a deep understanding of customer and partner needs.

Strong communication skills to effectively drive recommendations and land priorities across customers, partners, senior executives and across organizational boundaries.

Dealing with ambiguity: must have the ability to take initiative and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands and shifting priorities.

Collaboration: exceptional collaborator on complex multi-faceted programs

Linux/OSS experience a plus

Qualifications

Security Clearance Requirements: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret 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.

Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

Candidates selected for this position must comply with Federal Executive Order 14042 mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine by being fully vaccinated before their date of hire, or work with Microsoft to receive an approved religious or medical accommodation.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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