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The Purpose Of This Role The main goal of Microsoft Solution Engineer (SE) is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our technology. The SE is expected to be able to both own and win customers’ technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and engagements for sales specialists to pursue. As a SE, you work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate, and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision, allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly sales targets in your accounts. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies.
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. The ability to influence and build relationships across technical and business teams. Demonstrates executive presence, presentation skills, deep technical product demo abilities, written and verbal communication skills. Works cohesively with customers, the Microsoft account team, and Microsoft partners. Helps others succeed by identifying and promoting innovative solutions and strategies. Experience in creating Proof of Concepts (PoCs), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers that lead to production deployments.
The Impact You’ll Be Making As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for the Azure platform, you’ll play a key role in helping customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft’s cloud. You’ll 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.
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Some first years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience
Some first years of experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
Proficiency in French and/or German is required to engage with customers
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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