Senior Cloud Implementation Engineer — Microsoft 365 & Azure

Proven IT; Tinley Park (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Proven IT is seeking a senior Project Engineer III specializing in Microsoft Cloud. You will lead pre-sales assessments, design and migrate Microsoft 365/Entra environments, and own delivery of hybrid cloud projects.

Expect hands-on execution, collaboration with PMs, sales, and customer teams, and guidance to junior engineers. You will work on Intune, Autopilot, Azure infrastructure, and secure governance, while driving reusable standards and scalable solutions across customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive IT engineering experience with Microsoft cloud, identity, endpoint management, or hybrid infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, and hybrid identity.
• Certifications aligned with Microsoft cloud platforms are highly preferred at hire.
• Willingness to travel locally within the Chicago metro area for assessments and project work.

Responsibilities

• Lead existing-customer pre-sales assessments and develop practical solution architectures.
• Own technical workstreams from planning through completion and coordinate with PMs and sales.
• Design and migrate Microsoft 365/Entra environments, Exchange hybrid migrations, and Teams/SharePoint.
• Implement Intune/Autopilot, device enrollment, and policy/compliance management.
• Design Azure infrastructure, VMs, networking, storage, and Azure Virtual Desktop solutions.
• Apply security governance, RBAC, Azure Policy, and endpoint security standards.

Skills

Pre-sales architecture

Solution architecture

Project planning

Mentoring

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Intune scripts

Azure CLI

Bicep

Terraform

Git

Job description

Proven IT is seeking a senior Project Engineer III specializing in Microsoft Cloud. You will lead pre-sales assessments, design and migrate Microsoft 365/Entra environments, and own delivery of hybrid cloud projects.

Expect hands-on execution, collaboration with PMs, sales, and customer teams, and guidance to junior engineers. You will work on Intune, Autopilot, Azure infrastructure, and secure governance, while driving reusable standards and scalable solutions across customers.