Microsoft Engineer

Title: Microsoft Engineer

Location: Hollywood, FL 4x per week on site

Type: 6 month contract

Design, implement, and operationalize enterprise solutions on the Microsoft stack (Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune, Purview, SCCM, Defender, AD connect, Active Directory, ect...). This role will collaboratively support a global strategic objective to harmonize the end-to-end Microsoft lifecycle and environment spanning the enterprise.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of Microsoft-based solutions (Azure IaaS/PaaS, hybrid identity, Microsoft 365, Active Directory).
• Plan and execute cloud migrations and integrations (lift-and-shift, re-platform, refactor).
• Experience with tools like Quest, BitTitan, ect..
• Implement identity, security, networking, and governance controls (Azure AD, Conditional Access, RBAC, policies, MFA and Federation Technologies).
• Build automation and infrastructure-as-code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell) to accelerate deployments and enforce standards.
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Create technical designs and documents, runbooks, run knowledge-transfer/training sessions, and produce documentation.
• Integrated on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory, enabling hybrid identity management & secure cloud resources
• Enhanced security and operational efficiency via identity and access management strategies in complex enterprise environments
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams (network, security, devops, application owners).
• Deep AD experience (designing, operating, securing, troubleshooting, migrating and recovering Windows AD environments at scale (single‐domain to multi‐forest), plus automation, monitoring and hybrid identity integration)
• Implement device compliance, Conditional Access integration, app protection policies (MAM), application lifecycle and update rings.

Required qualifications

• 4–7 years in systems/solution engineering or cloud architecture with proven Microsoft stack experience.
• Hands-on Azure experience: Compute, networking, storage, identity, and PaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory, Azure AD, hybrid identity, and Microsoft 365 workloads.
• Scripting/automation: PowerShell, CLI; familiarity with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Networking fundamentals: VNets, ExpressRoute, VPN, load balancing, NSGs.
• Knowledge of security controls: Conditional Access, Azure Security Center/Microsoft Defender, Key Vault.
• Experience with backup/DR, monitoring/observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics).
• Excellent verbal and written communication; customer-facing and stakeholder management skills.