Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Azure Platform

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Are you curious, enthusiastic about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer
- Azure Platform for enterprise and commercial customers  this technical presales 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, and optimization—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. Your goal as a Solution Engineer is to win the technical decision of customers to commit to use Microsoft technology and cloud services.

The solution engineer is expected to both own and win customers’ technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and engagements to build a successful business in their territory.

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 App Service and AKS, 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.

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, 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.

• Achieve technical wins for the portfolio of Cloud services you are accountable for.
• Create and maintain the right tension to ensure velocity of project decision, delivery and implementation by customers & partners.
• 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.
• Own the technical journey for Azure Migration with customers leveraging processes, tools, demos, programs, and partners. Use consultative…