2 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate client business and operational challenges into Azure, migration, governance, or AI agent solutions.
- Lead junior and mid-level consultants by setting technical direction, reviewing work, removing blockers, and mentoring them.
- Scope workstreams, define deliverables, estimate effort, and keep client engagements on plan.
- Build client relationships and identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
- Lead Azure discovery, architecture assessments, workload inventories, dependency mapping, and cloud readiness assessments.
- Design and deploy enterprise-scale Azure landing zones with networking, policy, identity, and RBAC foundations.
- Plan and execute Azure migrations, including workload assessment, right-sizing, migration sequencing, cutover, and validation.
- Establish hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute, VPN gateways, and DNS strategies.
- Own Azure cost governance and FinOps practices, including budgets, alerts, tagging, reservations, savings plans, and chargeback reporting.
- Design and deploy isolated Microsoft Foundry environments with private networking, managed identity, RBAC, and customer-managed keys.
- Establish Copilot Studio governance, environment strategy, DLP controls, connector governance, generative AI settings, and licensing guidance.
- Build GitHub Actions promotion pipelines with automated tests, evaluation thresholds, and approval gates.
- Design evaluation and safety frameworks using golden datasets, quality, retrieval, and safety evaluators.
- Develop agents with the Foundry SDK and Copilot Studio and establish solution lifecycle management through pipelines.
- Advise on model selection and placement across the Foundry catalog using residency, inference location, and cost constraints.
- Author design documents, as-builts, build guides, technical roadmaps, runbooks, review packages, and governance evidence.
- Run client workshops, enablement sessions, and office hours.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in engineering or technical consulting.
- 5+ years delivering Azure infrastructure, landing zones, or migrations.
- At least 18 months delivering GenAI or agent systems to production.
- Experience leading small consulting or engineering teams on client engagements.
- Hands-on experience with Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones, Azure Migrate discovery and migration, hub-spoke or Virtual WAN networking, and enterprise workload right-sizing.
- Hands-on design and implementation across Azure compute, storage, networking, databases, containers, identity, and security.
- Hands-on Microsoft Foundry experience, including the account and project model, the current azure-ai-projects Python SDK, versioned agent deployments, model catalog management, and Azure AI Search retrieval.
- Hands-on Copilot Studio experience with generative orchestration, environment administration, DLP and connector governance, agent identity, and solution-based ALM using the pac CLI.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
- Experience building GitHub Actions workflows with environments, protection rules, and OIDC federation to Azure.
- Ability to design evaluation datasets and thresholds for evaluation-driven agent promotion.
- Strong consulting communication skills, including design documentation, technical roadmaps, executive presentations, and governance-board communication.
- Preferred Microsoft credentials include AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-400, AI-103, AB-100, Copilot Studio Applied Skills, or AZ-500.
- Preferred HashiCorp Terraform Associate and GitHub Actions GH-200 certifications.
- Experience in regulated or confidentiality-driven industries is preferred.
- Microsoft Purview, Application Insights tracing for agent workloads, Copilot Agent Kit, Power Platform administration, and AI governance-board experience are preferred.
About AHEAD
AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.