Azure PM

Position: Azure PM

Location: Downtown Chicago

Job Description:

• 3-6 month engagement Onsite
• Experience with analytics and reporting system in Azure
• Can manage the project in Agile methodology
• The usual Sr PM skills (excellent soft skills, strong team leadership, comfortable and effective reporting upwards, drives for solutions and delivery).

Key Responsibilities:

• Becoming a subject matter expert (SME) of multiple agile software development lines and the associated platform.
• Help application product teams bring their latest ideas to the field faster and provide the fault-tolerant and highly-scalable core of our customers platform as a service for internal users.
• Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
• Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.
• Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.
• 5+ year of experience in software management, engineering, or design
• Well versed in building product-quality software on Azure including experience in designing for high availability, building multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.
• Familiar with various application stacks such as .NET, C#, Powershell etc in a Visual Studio TFS/VSO environment.
• Configuration and deployment experience in two or more of the following:
  • Azure PaaS technologies
  • Azure apps technologies such as AzureSQL, Azure Tables, Cache, SQL Server DW, Azure AD
    etc.
  • Azure IaaS Technologies such as VMs, Virtual networks, Express Routes, Standard/Premium
    storage etc.
  • Deployed applications with Web UI frontends
  • Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces
• Expert level knowledge regarding MS Azure IaaS services (i.e. Compute, networking, databases, storage, backup and archive, DR, security, monitoring, etc.)
• Strong expertise in MS Azure Security & Identity services (i.e. Azure Active Directory, Domain
  Services, Azure Security Center, Azure Governance,)
• Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Federated
  AD, AD integration
• Azure Powershell deployments, experience with Powershell, DevOps CI/CD Pipelines
• Familiarity with Office 365 and Sharepoint service offerings.
• Experience as a hands-on technical practitioner/specialist in client facing roles in large enterprises and demonstrated client facing consulting skills, including building strong client relationships.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.
• Strong team skills including the ability to lead distributed teams and play the liaison.
• Azure certification in any of the following – Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Architect or Systems Ops.