As a Microsoft Azure engineer at CompuNet, you will design, develop, and deploy effective business solutions using Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, and other related technologies.
Role Expectations:- Technical Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert in Azure and Entra ID, with a deep understanding of both licensing and product functionality
- Solution Architecture: Leverage broad and deep technology knowledge to architect solutions that meet client business requirements, focusing on operational effectiveness and business value
- Consulting & Engagement: Deliver consulting engagements, manage customer expectations, and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of Microsoft Azure services
- Communication & Leadership: Exhibit strong communication skills to guide clients through projects with multiple work streams and resources
Core Duties and Responsibilities: - Articulate the benefits of Azure products to technical teams and business leaders
- Enhance customer value and productivity using Azure technologies
- Gather and translate client business requirements into use cases for Azure solutions
- Collaborate with sales teams to develop winning strategies for clients
- Execute pre-sales functions to create solution designs
- Use effective whiteboard storytelling for client and team communication
- Create Bill of Materials and Statements of Work
- Implement post-sales solutions and aid in the customer adoption experience
- Produce post-implementation project documentation
- Ensure clients understand solution features, infrastructure, and operational implications
- Participate in technical speaking engagements for market strategies or related events
Key Expectations of this Role: - Be a subject matter expert in various Azure services and Entra ID
- Develop and grow Azure market opportunities and strategies
- Address customer technical challenges and design scalable and integrated solutions
- Actively participate in the CompuNet cloud strategy team meetings
- Resource cost estimation, analysis, and optimization
- Maintain existing certifications and pursue new relevant certifications
- Participate in team functions, including calls, meetings, and events, both remote and in-person
- Accept mentorship from Architects, Principal Engineers, and Senior Solutions Engineers
- Own the opportunity lifecycle, from pre-sales through solution delivery and ongoing optimization
Minimum Requirements: - Candidate can occasionally be provided rough outline of ideas or requirements and extrapolate using expert judgement
- 5+ years of experience in IT systems development or consulting
- 5+ years of experience in designing solutions to solve business problems
- Demonstrated knowledge of Entra ID and Azure, with an emphasis on hybrid connectivity
- Self-sufficient on IaaS migrations (strategy, migration planning, execution)
- Experienced with core PaaS services (App Services, Azure SQL Database, Storage accounts)
- Comfort outside of Azure Portal UI, familiar with basic coding practices (VS Code/git repos/etc.) and/or CLI/scripting
- Cloud-native networking basics (VNet components, peering, private endpoints, on-premises inter-connectivity
- Networking technologies such as Fibre Channel, ethernet, iSCSI
- Storage fundamentals such as blob, file-level, network-attached, local storage, direct-attached, hierarchical, namespace, directory
- Comfort discussing application lifecycle
- Ability to consult on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Explain differences between Redundancy and Availability
- Administration and troubleshooting experience with server operating systems such as Windows and Linux
- Azure AZ-104 certification + (2) years industry experience as an Azure-focused engineer
- Explain each layer of the OSI model
- Explain differences between TCP and UDP traffic
- Experience in customer-facing roles with demonstrated capability in clearly presenting thoughts and ideas confidently to audiences of various sizes and technical knowledge levels
- Demonstrated aptitude for providing exceptional customer service in politically charged environments
- Ability to adapt to the customer's changing needs or requirements as they arise
- Ability to work independently with minimal management supervision and also as part of a global team of consultants and engineers
- Possess passion for continuous learning, strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and time management skills, and good judgment
- Ability to enhance the technical expertise of peers via the development of product-related intellectual capital and mentoring new hires
- Ability to apply knowledge to improve existing products and systems in the customer environment and for internal use
- Assist in developing strategies to gain additional business by communicating opportunities to sales teams
Preferred Requirements: - Bachelor's Degree in related field: Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Computer Science, etc
- Understand best practices and impact of Azure vs. in-guest operating system configuration management
- At scale, understanding the financial and technical impact of differentiating storage sizing such as "-ibibytes" vs. "-abytes" (e.g. Tibibytes vs. Terabytes)
- Knowledge and practical application of all Azure access methods including Azure Portal, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Cloud Shell
- Understanding of Windows Server, Linux, and virtualization concepts
- Deep experience with hybrid DNS between on-premises and Azure
- Entra ID, Entra ID Connect, and Active Directory Domain Services administration and troubleshooting
- Practical relational and non-relational database architecture, querying, concepts, and troubleshooting
- Understand Service Level Indicators, Service Level Offering, and Service Level Agreement
- Identity management troubleshooting and best practices consulting
- Conditional Access troubleshooting
- Experience with Application Performance Management and observability platforms
- Experience with Security Information and Event Management tools
- Experience with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response tools
- Experience Azure VMware Solution, Azure Files, and FSLogix
- Third-party Network Virtual Appliances
- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification (AZ-140)
- Azure Administrator Associate certification (AZ-104)
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (AZ-104 + AZ-305)
- Azure Network Engineer Associate certification (AZ-700)
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification (AZ-400)
- Experience with application systems and infrastructure-oriented scripting/programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, etc
- Industry experience with Terraform
- Formal project management methodologies such as waterfall and agile
- Understanding of DevOps methodology, as well as Microsoft tooling such as Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Understanding of DevSecOps methodology and "shift left" mindset
- Understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Optimization and how they all fit together in the software development lifecycle
- Deep experience with Terraform
Compensation and Benefits: We offer a full and comprehensive compensation package, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, Employee Assistance Program, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance, disability coverage, critical illness, and accident insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays
- Company-matching 401(k) and profit sharing
- Competitive salary, with an estimated base salary range of $100,000 - $175,000 per year. Eligibility for variable compensation such as commission, bonuses, and profit sharing is also included
