Lead Microsoft Cloud Engineer

Title: Lead Microsoft Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid, Holyoke, MA ( please focus on local candidates or candidates close to Holyoke, MA)

Duration: 12+ months

Rate: $60/hr. on W2

The Consultant should possess the following:

• 10+ years of experience in Microsoft Infrastructure technologies, with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and supporting Office 365 / M365 / Azure migrations.

• Extensive practical and applied experience in Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, ADFS, SSO, Windows Server, M365, Entra, including backup and restore procedures and active testing of the same.

• 5+ years of progressive project management, Working with one or more IT concepts such as DevOps, Agile, ITIL, etc.

• Fluent in PowerShell for automation of System Administration, Active Directory, Entra ID and Exchange, both on-premise and in cloud.

• Demonstrated experience driving organizational change through technological achievements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct Analysis, make recommendations and follow-through on implementations of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure environments, such as tenant configuration and hardening, while being mindful of increasing compliance and security.

• Lead efforts / Liaise between various business stakeholders and Infrastructure Services Department, to ensure proper and timely adoption and execution of M365 and/or Azure Proof of Concept efforts, continuing through adoption as appropriate.

• Advocate for technological evangelism around updating our business processes, technical controls, as well as existing on-prem/cloud environments, to continuously improve business operations while maximizing ROI on Microsoft Cloud Subscriptions & services.

• Modernize corporate e-mail strategy, finalize migration away from on-premises Exchange/MTA/competitive MX offerings, working with application and stakeholder teams as appropriate.

• Lead Microsoft/Windows Server Technical Chapter within Infrastructure Services into the future, providing mentorship to peers to drive change that makes a difference.

Minimum Requirements / Education

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Security, Cyber Security or related fields, or significant relevant job experience.

• Employing Ansible Automation Platform as a configuration management technology, and/or code management using GIT, CI/CD a plus

• Microsoft Cloud, PMP, ITIL certifications a plus.