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Networking Technology Consultant

Microsoft· Technology Consulting
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Springfield, VA$77.9k - $156.2kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Networking Technology Consultant role focused on pre-sales, technical delivery, IP management, and relationship building to drive adoption of Microsoft technologies, with security-first and government-classification considerations.

Responsibilities

  • Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies.
  • Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects. Proactively assists in the creation of intellectual property content and seeks areas that are available for more IP. Communicates areas that need refreshing or gaps in intellectual property. Provides feedback for continuous improvement.
  • Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy while maintaining adherence to security standards through Delivery Compliance, Privacy, and Security (DCPS). Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).
  • Participates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.
  • Implements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Industry Solutions processes and security initiatives. Oversees aspects of implementation.
  • Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
  • Proactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience.
  • Supports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance. Implements mitigations on technical, business, and security risks. Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Delivers against Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Participates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, security, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints.
  • Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements, ensuring security is prioritized.
  • Proactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders to address and resolve issues while maintaining a security-first mindset.
  • The ability to implement and deploy industry solutions and explain solution differentiation in customer terms.
  • The ability to identify problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • The ability to follow secure-by-design principles to ensure a secure foundation in the design of solutions.
  • Knowledge of the process of developing technical solutions and ability to design, customize, or reapply technical solutions based on customer/partner needs or demands.
  • The ability to identify and correct problems with products, processes, equipment, software, or other components, as well as their monitoring and regulating.
  • The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors.
  • The ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
  • The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with coworkers, managers, customers, partners, and/or vendors.
  • Knowledge of trends, direction, new products, and changes in the technology as it applies to a particular area of focus, as well as specific knowledge about hardware, software, and services.
  • The ability to architect consumption plans that drive optimized consumption and sustainable outcomes for customers.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft products/services and the ability to participate in technical conversations related to products/services.
  • The ability to apply principles, systems, tools, and strategic insights to sustainably improve key performance metrics (KPIs) and drive operational efficiencies.
  • The ability to apply reference architecture and patterns for a variety of solutions (e.g., advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, BI, data platform modernization, etc.).
  • The ability to apply ingenuity, inventiveness, and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product, service, program, or initiative.
  • Knowledge of and the ability to discuss advanced or complex design elements, engineering principles, and product specifications.
  • The ability to understand and analyze the software and hardware components of programs.
  • Knowledge of and the ability to follow systematic and continuing processes of checking to see whether a product, service, or process is meeting specified requirements.
  • The ability to prepare clear, accurate, and understandable written text, and follow grammar and punctuation rules.
  • Knowledge of the framework for development operations (DevOps) and agile, modern development processes.
  • Leads virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges; mentors less experienced colleagues; participates in external architect communities; demonstrates deep industry knowledge; collaborates with Account/Bid Teams; drives solution value and ROI; orchestrates cross-team coordination; plans complex architectures and risk mitigations; maintains architecture documents; drives POCs and pilots; persuades stakeholders with business-value arguments; remains current on Microsoft technologies; builds strategic relationships; resolves conflicts; drives consensus.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ year(s) work experience in relevant area of business
  • 3+ years work experience in relevant area of business (preferred)
  • Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics) (preferred)
  • Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management) (preferred)
  • Minimum 6 years of experience as a network engineer or technical program manager for networks (preferred)
  • Minimum 2 years of experience with architecture, deployment, and/or operations of Government classified networks (preferred)
  • CCNP or higher or equivalent professional certification; CompTIA Security+ (preferred)
  • 2+ years of experience with cloud networking implementations
  • Applied experience with Ansible, Splunk, and/or Solarwinds
  • Applied experience with Azure Networking, Azure Kubernetes, Yaml scripting, and Bicept ARM
  • Experience with L2/L3 switching/routing, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, LACP
  • Experience with firewall, network security, or monitoring solutions (e.g., Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, Juniper SRX) (preferred)

Skills

Required:Pre-SalesIP ManagementProject Management

Benefits

  • Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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