Senior Consultant - Infra

Location: Prakāshamnagar

Overview

Microsoft Industry Solution - Global Center for Innovation and Delivery (GCID) delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. An organization of well over 1000+ exceptional people, MS GCID presents a great opportunity for highly skilled services professionals to make a foray into consulting, solution development and delivery roles. The ideal consultant is passionate about technology, has the breadth rather than specific product depth, and has the drive and courage to articulate and stand up for a great solution delivering true value for the client.

As a Microsoft consultant, you will deliver quality engagements with your expertise, either as an advisor, reviewer, contributor, or resource in high profile projects to ensure customer value. The ideal candidate must have the ability to combine their technical skills, creativity, and customer focus to deliver great solutions to the customers and ensure they get the best out of our technologies and solutions.

Consulting Delivery professionals bring subject matter and solution expertise to architectural teams, customers, and partners. They apply deep technical and business knowledge to accelerate the adoption of Microsoft devices and services by ensuring strategic, architectural, and operational alignment to customer and partner

Responsibilities

As a full Stack Infrastructure Consultant, design, build, and optimize endtoend cloud and on premises infrastructure solutions, ensuring secure, scalable, and high performing environments across the entire technology stack.
Collaborate with the customer/partner team of Chief Information Officers (CIOs), other C-level executives, and technical and business decision-makers to align customer vision with solutions. Manages risk and Services business goals within engagements.
Responsible for technical quality assurance, identification, and mitigation of technical risk across customer or partner deliverables delivery technology strategy aligned solutions
Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions, based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the business objectives of customers and partners.
Applies information-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence.
Identifies new processes and innovations to help customers or partners build and accelerate capabilities by using Microsoft technologies.
Identifies the best practice approach for a project, across a wide scope of technical issues, and develops or reuses intellectual capital with customers, world-wide, and for programs and initiatives across Microsoft.
Defines engagements and opportunities to use Intellectual Property (IP) and address product gaps, while leveraging existing IP and community resources to ensure consistency and improve predictability.
Drives new ways of thinking, across the division and subsidiary, to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.

Qualifications

9+ years of overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years of handson expertise in Azure Infrastructure architecture, design, and operations.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience; advanced technical certifications or higher education preferred.
Mandatory Microsoft Azure Administrator certification (AZ104);
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ305) highly preferred.
Terraform Associate certification strongly valued, with proven experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation.
Cloud AI certification such as Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI‑900) or equivalent is a strong advantage, with practical understanding of AI/ML workloads on cloud platforms.
Experience across both application architecture and cloud infrastructure domains, with the ability to bridge development and operations teams effectively.
Professional certifications in Delivery Management methodologies (Scrum, Agile, ITIL, Change/Project Management) considered a strong advantage.

Area of Expertise

AI First Infrastructure Skills

Proficiency in Python for automation, AI integration, and…