Systems - O365 Automation Engineer - Quadrant, Inc.

O365 Automation Engineer
Hybrid/Chantilly, VA or Ft. Meade, MD

MUST:
Active Secret clearance
Experienced O365 Engineer
10+ years of overall IT experience
3+ years of experience with automation platforms and designing solutions to scale
Strong experience with working in MS 365 / Azure cloud environments
Experience managing the automation of tenant configurations using Microsoft 365 related API endpoints and automation with PowerShell Modules and Power Platform
Experience with the Microsoft 365 Management Interfaces
Experience using a distributed revision control system (i.e., Git) for configuration changes
Experience with CI/CD
Policy as Code (PaC) using platforms like Ansible, Terraform, M365DSC, etc
Experience with Agile/SCRUM software development
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Able to work well on a team and collaborate with team members
Active IAT II certification or higher is required
Bachelor s Degree in related field (4 years of related technical experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree)

DUTIES:
The ideal candidate will help provide automation support for government clients
Follow software development best practices to facilitate collaboration, feature enhancement, issue tracking, testing, development, and production deployment
Implement automation of tenant management and other tasks using Power Platform, PowerShell, APIs, etc.
Utilize parameter driven, declarative syntax models, when possible, to afford flexibility and simplicity to subscribing organizations
Provides top-level technical expertise, including performing in-depth and complex software systems programming and analysis.
Designs architectures to include the software, hardware, and communications to support present technical specifications, while ensuring relevance, functionality, and adaptability for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for DoD architectures
Determines and identifies high level functional and technical requirements based on interactions with the user community and knowledge of the enterprise architectures
Interacts with project management to plan project schedules and technical direction
Develops software design documents and technology white papers. Instrumental in selection of development tools
Develops high-level system design diagrams, testing, and documentation
Responsible for quality assurance reviews and evaluation of existing and new software products