Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure
About The Position
Microsoft is hiring Cloud Solution Architects for its Cloud & AI Infrastructure team to help customers achieve business priorities and advance their cloud and AI transformation. The role helps customers assess applications and business requirements, recommend suitable solutions, and demonstrate them to support technical decisions. It focuses on migrating, modernizing, and securing infrastructure, applications, and data on Microsoft Azure, while establishing foundations for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. The architect delivers customer engagements in migration, modernization, operational excellence, and resilient architecture using frameworks such as the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Working closely with customer IT leaders and Microsoft technical and sales teams, the role designs and implements scalable solutions, resolves blockers, and accelerates Azure adoption through repeatable intellectual property and delivery excellence. The work may span Azure infrastructure, applications, databases, SAP, and hybrid environments, supporting customers across enterprise, regulated, and partner services organizations and of varying sizes. Opportunities are available across the United States, including locations beyond the location where the role is posted. The role allows work from home up to 50%, and travel varies by role. The posting lists Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 and IC5 pay ranges. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for at least five days.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, and at least 4 years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting; or equivalent experience.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer visa sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 12 years of relevant experience; or a master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in a customer-facing role, internal and/or external.
- At least 6 years of experience working on technical projects.
- Technical cloud certification, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or security certifications.
Responsibilities
- Translate customer challenges into actionable solutions aligned with high-return customer outcomes and foster satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term value.
- Lead architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions aligned with customer business goals using frameworks such as CAF and WAF.
- Partner with technical and sales teams to identify opportunities and develop tailored solutions that drive expansion and business value realization.
- Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof-of-concept and production milestones, across infrastructure, data, SAP, and AI workloads.
- Ensure customer environments are optimized for health, resiliency, security, and performance to enable production-scale AI use cases.
- Deliver repeatable intellectual property and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.
- Identify and resolve technical blockers to accelerate go-live and ensure delivery excellence.
- Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions and aligning with business priorities.
- Maintain technical skills through continuous learning and certifications in priority workloads such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, SAP (Native and RISE), Windows, Linux, and Defender for Cloud.
- Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success.
- Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
