Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Azure Platform - CTJ - Top Secret

Are you curious, enthusiastic about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer focused on the Azure Platform for commercial customers at Microsoft. 

In this technical sales role, you will help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support their 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. 

As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for the Azure Platform, you will play a key role in helping customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft’s cloud. 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, PostgreSQL, 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 NetApp, VMware, RedHat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience. 

As you join the team, 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. 
 
With a solid understanding of Azure security services and compliance frameworks, 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. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• 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 platforms 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, PostgreSQL, 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.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience 
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience 

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years 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 PostgreSQL. 
• 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. 

Other Requirements:

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance.    Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Cloud Screening: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Technology Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 16, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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