Senior Deployment Consultant

Cloud Computing enables customers to take a key step toward better business agility, economics, and user experience and ultimately presents an opportunity to redefine the role IT plays in implementing their business strategy.

Do you want to join a unique team of smart and passionate colleagues who truly enjoy helping customers do amazing things to optimize their productivity while mitigating risk? Join Americas Cloud Services, a segment of the United States Enterprise Services organization, and be responsible for delivering online, managed services to our customers and partners. We have exciting opportunities for Senior Deployment Consultants who want to help customers implement leading-edge software solutions that redefine their work environment. We’re looking for people with deep mail system & datacenter infrastructure architecture experience to take our customers to a whole new level of technology enabled business success!

As a Senior Deployment Consultant, you will be an integral part of an account team that helps foster trusted advisor, executive-level relationships on customer engagements, sharing and implementing the vision and future direction of the world’s leading software products. You will be on the front lines of innovation on Microsoft technology, taking advantage of direct access with and feedback to product development teams, helping them design future solutions for enterprise customers. You can be part of ground floor opportunities implementing new products and technology and providing customers the foundation for cloud computing. Grow your skills and accelerate your career via Microsoft’s deep technical and professional development programs and by surrounding yourself with exceptional professionals who thrive on collaboration and raising the bar along with their peers.

To achieve these goals, we’re looking for individuals with enterprise-level technical and consulting skills who thrive in roles with high levels of recognition and visibility. You must possess one or more of the following technical skills to be successful in the role:

• Networking: Solid understanding of Dedicated & MPLS Data Circuits, VPNs, Firewalls, TCP Ports, F5’s, & Troubleshooting network slowdowns and IP port problems

• Authorization & Authentication: Active Directory Forests, Active Directory Federation Services, Security Permissions & Authentication, Certificates, Tenants, & Interworking of DNS record types (eg MX records)

• Mail Migrations 50K+: Exchange, Public Folders, Group Calendars, Delegates, Blackberry, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, LDAP structures and migration techniques (Binary Tree, Quest, Messaging Architects, Migration Wiz, etc.)

• Other MS Platforms: Lync Communications, SharePoint Administration & Implementation

• Base Servers: Windows Server Hardware Architecture, Multiple SAN types, PowerShell Scripting & Problem management, Troubleshooting, & Cleanup

In addition to these technical attributes, successful candidates will have:

• 6+ years’ experience managing complex projects

• Strong verbal and written communication skills - clear, concise, & timely communications

• Solid consulting skills including: IT Infrastructure Consulting, Defining Functional Requirements, Architect Specified Infrastructure Model

• Proven experience as a self-starter and leader who is able to work within tight timeframes, & work with minimal supervision with great results

• Solid understanding of the needs of project managers & executives, with experience mainstream project lifecycle methodology strongly preferred

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field , or equivalent experience

We are looking for experienced individuals throughout the US to be a part of this exciting team. Travel (up to 80%+) is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand.

Candidates must also be able to meet customer security screening requirements which may include, but not limited to: specialized agency background checks (either national or local) and fingerprinting. All employees hired into roles supporting Cloud Offerings will also be required to pass Microsoft background checks prior to the start of employment and every two years thereafter.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as the ACS Senior Deployment Consultant, we would like to explore the possibilities with you!

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Jobs at Google -Regional Corporate Network Deployment Manager US Mountain View, CA.

Job Title: Regional Corporate Network Deployment Manager, TPM Office and Technology – Mountain View
This position is based in Mountain View, CA.
The area: Engineering, Corporate Network

The Corporate Network Engineering team plays a critical role in Google’s overall success. This is because we build, maintain and ensure the excellence of the network that sits behind the internal applications our company employees use every day. Our work consists of gathering and implementing network requirements, evaluating new and upgrading existing network equipment – and participating in a rotating, on-call schedule with other team members. All of us are LAN experts with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, and we’re dedicated to providing the type of fluid service that promotes the best possible work.
The role: Regional Corporate Network Deployment Manager, TPM Office and Technology

As the Regional Corporate Network Deployment Manager you will build, manage and lead a group of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) in the successful on-time delivery of Google offices in your region. You are technically proficient, can grasp complex issues and present them clearly and concisely, and understand project and business goals. You will be accountable to identify risk, dependency and resource needs in the deployment of specific network technology projects. Working with your team you will gather and implement network requirements, evaluate new and upgrade existing network equipment.
Responsibilities:

Successfully manage a team of TPMs who are responsible for the successful turn-up of Google offices and corporate data centers.
Manage a team of TPMs who successfully partner with the network engineering and network deploy teams to deliver corporate network technologies.
Handle the majority of escalation and problem resolution between different deployment teams to successfully meet due dates.
Provide metrics on the success and failures of each project with recommendations on ways to improve to each of the engineers team involved.
Build successful relationship with the internal and external teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

BS degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
5 years project/program management experience with large, complex projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience managing senior resources (Technical Program Managers and Engineers).
Enterprise Networking, Layer 1 Infrastructure Experience, and previous hands-on ability with on-site technical deployments (fiber, copper, cabling, server room, rack setup, etc).
Portfolio Management – multiple concurrent projects which require prioritization, scheduling, risk management, contingency planning.
To Apply;

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/engops/corpeng/regional-corporate-network-deployment-manager-tpm-office-and-technology-mountain-view/index.html

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