We are Microsoft Consulting Services, and are passionate about delivering Microsoft’s mission:

“to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”. 

We are the Azure Cloud and AI team, and we believe in the power of personal growth and development. We succeed as a team by sharing knowledge and experience. Don’t worry about what you don’t know; come and show us what you do know, and we will teach you the rest.  We want to invest in you, you’re training and development.
 

Responsibilities

What we do

We provide technical direction to our customers who are deploying, maintaining, or innovating solutions using the latest technology.  We enable our customers to have the skills to deploy, support and maintain their environment in line with Microsoft best practices. 

The ideal candidate will have the ability to combine their technical passion, creativity, and customer focus to deliver great solutions to their customers and ensure they get the best out of our technologies and solutions. 

What we need

•    Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with customers 
•    A passion for learning about and experimenting with new technologies
•    Confidence in creating and delivering technical presentations and training
•    An interest in learning to read, interpret and/or develop technical specifications and diagrams
•    Ability to learn new technologies quickly through self-learning
•    Ability to build trust to drive change with customers
•    Excellent organisation and planning skills

We would also expect you to be able to pass the following Certifications in the first 12 months of employment with us, if you do not already hold them:
•    AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
and one of the following
•    DP-100: Azure Data Scientist Associate
•    DP200/201: Azure Data Engineer Associate
•    AI-100: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Qualifications

We are looking for a consultant to join the team who will focus on one of the following technical skill sets. You may already have these skills, or you might be interested in learning about them.
 
Data consultant:
•    Understanding of database concepts and deployments
•    Planning for and conducting database migrations such as for SQL and Oracle
•    An understanding of both IaaS and PaaS SQL
•    Supporting or maintaining mission critical SQL Server Database systems
•    Knowledge of RDMS technologies
•    Designing and utilizing ARM templates 
•    Troubleshooting Open-Source databases like MySQL and Postgre SQL
•    Building large scale data sets in Azure, AWS, Hadoop, or similar big data environments
•    Knowledge of or an interest in one or more of the following - Sybase, DB2, Hbase, MySQL

Note - Security Clearance Requirements:

Ability 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:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• Australian Citizen with min. Baseline Clearance. Must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at Baseline or higher.

What we offer

•    Microsoft offers a flexible working environment to enable you to better balance your work and life
•    Microsoft prides itself on the parental and family related leave we offer to help when you need to be with your family
•    Microsoft provides a vast range of training and learning experiences for their employees from online self-paced training, through to face-to-face conference style learning. We want to invest in your learning, so bring your passion and we will help you find the right path.

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.