Solution Engineer - Infrastructure

Microsoft • ,

10d • $106,400 - $222,600 • Remote

About The Position

Join Microsoft as a Solution Engineer - Infrastructure supporting commercial customers. In this technical sales role, you will help customers design secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and sovereign cloud architectures to support modernization and Frontier AI transformation. You will guide organizations through modernization and migration, translating technical capabilities into business outcomes.

The role calls for deep expertise across Azure infrastructure, including virtual networks, subnets, private networking, Private Link, multitenancy, tenant consolidation, managed identities, role-based access control, firewalls, network security groups, Microsoft Entra, storage, backup, load balancing, redundancy, Azure landing zones, Azure Arc, infrastructure as a service, and AI landing zones. You will conduct customer discovery, prioritize and validate use cases, design architectures, and deliver proofs of concept and custom demonstrations. You will work with technical and business stakeholders on modernization across hardware, software, applications, databases, security, and networking.

As a trusted technical advisor, you will guide customers through Azure technical decisions and deployments. You will support migration of Windows, Linux, and Oracle workloads to Azure and help customers modernize through migration strategies, containerization, and Azure-native services such as Azure Kubernetes Service. You will also explore how agentic AI and tools such as Microsoft Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot can accelerate transformation. The role also involves hybrid and cloud-native networking, including virtual networks, VPNs, secure routing architectures, and partner solutions.

This opportunity offers career growth, business acumen development, and the chance to strengthen technical, selling, solution-design, and deployment skills. It is predominantly remote, with 0–25% travel. Microsoft describes its mission as empowering every person and organization to achieve more, and emphasizes growth mindset, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 4+ years of such experience; or 5+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or equivalent experience.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without now or future requiring employer visa sponsorship.
• Preferred: 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: 4+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, including architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows and Linux virtual machines.
• Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of Azure services, including infrastructure, networking, security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Experience leading technical engagements, including discovery, architecture design, prototyping, pilots, and proofs of concept, that drive production-scale outcomes.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms, including AWS and GCP.

Nice To Haves

• 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, including architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and migration of Windows and Linux virtual machines.
• Experience designing or selling enterprise hybrid-networking, secure-connectivity, or network-performance-optimization solutions.
• Solid understanding of Azure infrastructure, networking, security, compliance, and hybrid-cloud services and scenarios.
• Experience leading technical engagements that drive production-scale outcomes.
• Familiarity with AWS and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform-estate modernization and sovereign cloud customer engagements.
• Lead technical workshops through live demonstrations, collaborative whiteboarding, architecture design, rapid prototyping, hands-on proofs of concept, and pilots to address technical blockers.
• Validate technical solutions and co-create or reuse existing architectures to influence solution design and support customer deployment decisions.
• Maintain deep expertise in cloud migration, including Windows, Linux, and application workloads, as well as resiliency, security, and compliance.
• Demonstrate familiarity with enterprise applications and platforms, including SAP, Oracle, and VMware.
• Demonstrate familiarity with other cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
• Conduct customer discovery, prioritize and validate use cases, design architectures, and deliver proofs of concept and custom demonstrations.
• Advise customers on Azure solutions and deployments, including workload migration, modernization, containerization, and Azure-native services.
• Explore how agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot can accelerate customer transformation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level