Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Azure Platform

Overview

Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for the Azure Platform for commercial customers  this technical sales role, you will help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support modernization goals. Using Azure’s IaaS and PaaS services, you will guide organizations through migration, modernization, optimization, and innovation—translating technical capabilities into significant business outcomes. You will collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.

You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and business-critical applications. You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloads—including Windows, SQL Server, Linux, Postgre

SQL, and Oracle—to Azure. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Azure-native services like AKS and Arc, while exploring how AI and intelligent agents can accelerate legacy transformation. You also apply strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures that meet enterprise performance and compliance needs.

You complement this with trusted partner solutions like Net App, VMware, Red Hat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience. You will have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise with access to a wide range of Microsoft learning resources—including support for earning industry-recognized certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI. You will help customers meet regulatory requirements and build Cloud environments that are ready for the future.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we foster a culture of inclusion rooted in respect, integrity, and accountability.

• Drive technical sales by using technical demos, proofs of concept, and technical architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable deployments.
• Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to accelerate Azure adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leads to co-design secure, scalable solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers by collaborating with engineering and sharing customer insights.
• Maintain expertise in cloud migration (Windows, SQL, Linux, Postgre
  
  SQL, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance.
• Deepen knowledge of enterprise apps (SAP, Oracle) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.

• Embody our culture and values.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, SQL, Linux, and Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Platform, and containerization strategies.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions.

• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.

• 4+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on…