Cloud Engineering Consultant - CTJ - TS/SCI
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026. Microsoft scores B on the Alion truth index.
As a Cloud Engineering Consultant on the development team, you will partner with customers and their integrators to modernize infrastructure and accelerate cloud adoption. You’ll design and implement secure, scalable, and automated solutions in Microsoft Azure-migrating from on-premises environments and guiding them through integration strategies that optimize workload performance, scalability, and operational efficiency in the cloud. Your work will leverage Azure technologies such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with BICEP, Azure DevOps Server (ADO), Azure Monitor, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containers, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Experience with related on-premises technologies and Azure hybrid design is desired. Candidates should be well versed in proactively moving forward solutions through organizational processes and working across customer and internal teams.
This opportunity will allow you to:
- Accelerate your career growth by leading complex cloud transformation initiatives.
- Hone your skills in cloud-native technologies and secure automation practices.
- Develop deep business acumen by aligning DevOps strategies with customer goals and compliance frameworks.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Technical Delivery
- Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints.
- Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud.
- Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform.
- Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer.
- Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impactand proposes mitigations and contingencies.
- Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues.
- Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
- The successful candidatemust havean active U.S. Government Top Secret /SCI Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government 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 & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business.
- Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).
- Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).
- 5+ years DevOps experience in (Impact Level Environments) IL4, IL5 and IL6
Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,800 - $193,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $126,100 - $207,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.