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. Do not 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, your training and development.

Responsibilities

What we need

•    Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with customers  
•    An ability to articulate the differences between potential solution options and 
lead customers in making technical design decisions 
•    A passion for learning about and experimenting with new technologies 
•    Ability to build trust to drive change with customers 
•    An appreciation of delivering in an Agile project framework 
•    Excellent organisation and planning skills 

Qualifications

Experience 

We would expect you to be able to pass one of the following Certifications in the first 12 months of employment with us, if you do not already hold them:

•    Azure Developer Associate – AZ-204
•    Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert - AZ 400

We are looking for a consultant to join the team who will focus on the design and delivery of applications related services. You may already have these skills, or you might be interested in learning about them. 

•    Designing and implementing web application server technologies, software architecture and cloud application development solutions such as PaaS, Serverless and API Management 
•    Working with scalable architectures, particularly container orchestration such as Kubernetes or Cloud Foundry 
•    Development of Bots and Bot frameworks using cognitive services 
•    Working with continuous integration technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, Chef or Puppet, GitHub
•    Knowledge of or an interest in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails or Pig/Hive 
•    Experience using integrated development environments such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode or WebSphere  

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.