Day one onsite-Azure Project Manager @ Downtown Chicago, IL

Azure Project Manager

Duration: 3-6 month engagement

Onsite from day one

location: Downtown Chicago, IL

Ideal Candidate Profile:

� Experience with analytics and reporting system in Azure
� Can manage 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).

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.

Required Skills/Experience:
� 6+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor"s degree or its equivalent.
� 5+ year of experience in software management, engineering, or design
� Well vered 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:

o Azure PaaS technologies
o Azure apps technologies such as AzureSQL, Azure Tables, Cache, SQL Server DW, Azure AD etc.
o Azure IaaS Technologies such as VMs, Virtual networks, Express Routes, Standard/Premium storage etc.
o Deployed applications with Web UI frontends
o 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