Consultant

Required qualifications for Consultants include: 

• Highly proficient, customer-facing experience involving project envisioning, planning, design, development, and deployment of complex solutions 

• 7+ years of software development: automation-related experience is valued. Scripting languages such as bash, python, and PowerShell, or compiled languages such as C, C# and Go are most relevant, but others are acceptable. 
• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, microservices, and so on 
• Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow RPC call-chains across arbitrary network steps. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems 
• Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack; understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same 
• Experience with working in a team, including coordinating large projects, communicating well, and exercising initiative when presented with problems 

• Strong understanding of customer and partner business and IT environments, with proven record of delivering successful technical solutions 
• Practical experience running large scale online systems is always an advantage 
• Demonstrated ability to focus on the development of customer business agility and business value, while simultaneously providing deep experience with specific technologies 
• Strong communication, consulting, analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Growth mindset 

• Flexible work approaches with strong proactivity and inclination to resolving customer situations 
• Demonstrated skills designing and developing technology in area(s) of specialization to solve business problems and help customers in enhancing existing applications; core skills must include Microsoft technology, with open-source experience helpful 
• Degree in Computer Science Engineering, MCA or equivalent with work experience; higher relevant education preferred 
• MCSD/MCSE/MCAD/Azure certification is a plus 

Required Skills: 

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming and Design experience 
• Understanding of Technical Design Patterns 
• SQL Programming knowledge 
• .Net 4.0/Core (ASP.Net, Web API, PowerShell script. MVC, TFS/GitHub) 

• Azure (Deep technical understanding of PaaS, Good experience in Azure services like Service Fabric, Web Apps, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, and API management, SQL. with Azure Application Dev experience)Deep technical and architectural knowledge of at least 3 of the following areas, as well as broad understanding across the Microsoft Development toolset: 
• Cloud Technologies (preferably Azure Full Stack) 
• Skills on projects targeting a variety of form factors (e.g. Mobile, IoT) 
• Development Languages (e.g. C#, JavaScript, Java, Front end skills like React, Angular etc.) 
• Application Lifecycle Management (e.g. Agile, TFS etc.) 

• Solution Architecture (e.g. SOA, Enterprise Architecture) 
• Identity and Access Management (IAM), Conditional Access Policies, Strong Authentication, Risk-Based Access, Encryption, Backup & Disaster Recovery, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Secure Coding Practices, Input Validation, Output Encoding, Authentication and Password Management, Session Management, Cryptography, Threat and Vulnerability Identification, Security Breach Response.
• Techniques:Implementing modern authentication providers (like EntraID), simulating attacks, writing resilient code, using encryption algorithms, hashing techniques, secret management with key vault, cryptographic protocols.
• Tools: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Metasploit, Burp Suite, custom scripts.

Good to have skills:             

• Industry vertical knowledge – Retail, Banking and Finance, Telecom etc. 
• Middleware technologies used for integrations 
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc.