JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Engineers’ responsibilities include: Managing all aspects of our customer’s technologies; Mentoring, educating, guiding, and supporting associate/mid-level team members; Project management: IT assessments, recommendations, and proposals; and nurturing customer relationships. Seniors play a crucial role as they serve as the junction point between client service delivery excellence, and the professional development of our consultants. This is a client facing technical role.

Responsibilities:

• Provide clients with technical expertise pertaining to networking, mobility, virtualization, security, and cloud-based solutions.
• Evaluate, recommend, and execute new technologies.  
• Update existing infrastructure to ensure optimal network performance, security, and availability.
• Develop IT strategies to ensure the networking, compute, and storage infrastructure meets current and future requirements based on needs and regulations. 
• Have an understanding of on premise, hybrid, and cloud architectures as well as proven best practices that enable high operational resiliency.
• Candidate must have the ability to work in a variety of environments, have excellent follow-up skills, provide detailed documentation, and be able to work effectively and independently.  
• Participation in proposal content, product research, and sales meetings with prospective clients may be required.
• Understanding fundamentals of IT governance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Certifications strongly preferred: Microsoft expert certification (Cloud technology), CISSP, CCSP and other related industry certifications.
• Minimum of 5 plus years' experience with the maintaining, and supporting of various technology environments
• Prior consulting experience is highly desirable.
• Comprehensive understanding of operating platforms, connectivity, security, and information management
• Fundamental knowledge of advanced troubleshooting theory and practice
• Deep knowledge of the complete Microsoft SaaS cloud stack including Microsoft 365, EMS, and Azure Active Directory.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS services including virtual machines, storage, networking, backup/site recovery and security. 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure PaaS platforms such as SQL databases and Elastic pools, Azure App Services, and web application firewalls
• Knowledge of on-premises based technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN
• Systems Center knowledge a plus
• Strong interpersonal and client management skills
• Must be a team player.
• Must be strong in all aspects of Microsoft back-office platforms.
• Strong hands-on networking, firewalls, routing and switching experience.
• Experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft
• Outstanding and proven communication at all levels within an organization, project management, and organizational skills required. 
• Understand networking and routing and have some exposure to firewalls. Need to have some hands on experience.

• Interact with private clouds or Saas apps, manage workloads in servers on the platforms. Can be entry level with O365, Azure/AD is a plus. Need to have written group policies.