Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking a Senior Solution Engineer to support commercial customers in the Frontier AI era. The role focuses on designing secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and sovereign Azure architectures, guiding cloud modernization and migration, and translating technical capabilities into business outcomes. The engineer will lead technical engagements, workshops, proofs of concept, and customer deployments across cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and enterprise platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead **Platform** **Estate modernization & Sovereign Cloud** customer engagements
- Drive technical workshop using live technical demos, co-create with customers whiteboarding & architecture, rapid prototyping, hands-on proofs of concept & pilots to resolve technical blockers
- Prove technical solutions, co-create or re-use existing architecture to influence solution design and enable customer commitment for deployments
- Maintain deep expertise in cloud migration (Windows, Linux, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance
- Know main market enterprise apps: SAP, Oracle and VMware
Skills
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience
- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance
- This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, Linux, VM
- Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot (GHCP), Agentic tooling, Windows Server, Linux, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Defender for Cloud
- Strong understanding of Azure services, including networking, security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios
- Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., prototyping, pilot, PoCs) that drive production-scale outcomes
- 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
- 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and ISVs like NetApp, VMware, and RedHat
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and Public Sector compliance standards
Benefits
- Career growth opportunities
- Flexible work opportunities
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
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