RIT Solutions, Inc. · 3 months ago
Associate Director, Microsoft Platform Engineering (Player-Coach) Location: Austin, TX / Remote Tea
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/ExecutiveRIT Solutions, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director for Microsoft Platform Engineering to lead and manage the Microsoft platform including Entra ID/Azure AD, M365 Core, and Power Platform. This technical role involves hands-on management, platform ownership, and team development, focusing on automation and governance in a collaborative environment.
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Responsibilities
Own the Microsoft platform—Entra ID/Azure AD, M365 Core (Exchange Online, Teams), Power Platform—and Microsoft licensing
Drive a hard pivot from clickops to platform-as-code (Git-first, policy-as-code, pipelines, drift detection)
Partner with Security (Intune, Defender, Purview) and Workplace Technology (including Service Desk) to land the right operating model
Sustain and evolve our modern identity posture (SSO, CA, PIM, SCIM, app registration/consent hygiene) with change control, telemetry, and safe rollout patterns
Tenant guardrails, transport hygiene (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), Teams policy baselines (external/guest/meeting/retention), published SLOs and golden dashboards
Environment strategy, DLP guardrails, ALM pipelines & solution checker, maker program (enablement + monitoring), connector governance; reliability for business-critical apps/flows
EA strategy/renewals/true-ups, SKU mix/right-sizing (E1/E3/E5/F3, add-ons), allocation hygiene, usage analytics, cost optimization, vendor management, Finance reporting
Own the portal's roadmap, curriculum, governance, and adoption; integrate with LMS/Viva as needed; partner with the SharePoint-owning team for implementation
GitLab pipelines, Terraform (AzureAD/M365) where sensible, Microsoft Graph/PowerShell tooling, policy-as-code, drift detection with auto-remediation, auditable change history
Incident command for the Microsoft stack; RCA/postmortem program with tracked corrective actions; SLO/error budget management
Hiring pipeline, onboarding, skill matrix, growth plans, coaching, and a healthy on-call standard. Build a team that ships platforms as code
90% of owned configuration managed as code (PR-gated) with auditable pipelines; high-risk drift auto-remediated
80% reduction in portal-only changes; exceptions documented with a time-boxed path to code
Published SLOs for Exchange/Teams; >99.9% availability; <4h MTTR for P1s; RCAs completed with verified fixes
DLP enforced, ALM/solution checker live; maker program running with safe growth and zero critical DLP violations
8–12% YoY cost avoidance/savings, 98% allocation accuracy, clean audit posture with evidence
Launched/refreshed with 60% monthly active employees in target cohorts, 70% completion on core curricula, CSAT 4.3/5, and quarterly content freshness reviews
Skills matrix baselined; quarterly growth conversations completed; critical skills coverage 90%; time-to-onboard to independent PRs ≤45 days
Lead roadmap and standards; coach senior ICs while staying hands-on
Author Terraform modules and Graph/PowerShell tooling; enforce policy-as-code
Build GitLab CI/CD for promotion, checks, compliance evidence, drift monitors, and auto-remediation
Publish M365 SLO dashboards; run incident response and RCA quality
Own licensing end-to-end: forecasting, renewal/negotiation, SKU strategy, analytics, savings tracking, Finance/Leadership reporting
Own the M365 training portal product: curriculum roadmap, SME governance, analytics, and adoption plays; partner with the SharePoint team for delivery
Co-define the operating model with Security and Workplace Tech; integrate with Service Desk runbooks
Qualification
Required
Proven platform leadership with deep, hands-on Entra ID/Azure AD (CA, PIM, app reg/consent, federation, SCIM)
Strong M365 Core (Exchange/Teams) and Power Platform governance (DLP, ALM, CoE patterns)
Automation-first: Git-based workflows, GitLab CI, Graph API/PowerShell, Terraform (AzureAD/M365), policy-as-code, SLOs/error budgets
Licensing program ownership with measurable savings and allocation hygiene
Team builder: hiring, coaching, skill matrices, feedback culture, on-call quality bar
Incident/RCA leadership and the backbone to say no to one-offs and push to codified, repeatable solutions
Preferred
IGA (SailPoint/Entra ID Governance), secrets management, and PAM integrations
Built a Power Platform CoE and scaled maker communities safely
Regulated environments (SOX/ISO) with automated evidence
M&A platform integrations (tenant consolidation, domain migrations)
Company
RIT Solutions, Inc.
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