Cloud Solution Architect Infrastructure
Microsoft
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll play an instrumental role in helping customers migrate, modernize and secure their infrastructure, applications and data, laying the groundwork for scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
You’ll work with forward-thinking IT leaders, tackling real-world challenges and designing resilient architectures using frameworks like CAF and WAF. Your expertise will guide customers through critical milestones, leveraging proven IP and delivery engines to accelerate adoption and unlock value.
This is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases and hybrid environments. You’ll be part of a team that values precision, creativity and impact - where your decisions influence outcomes and your growth is continuous.
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
Find out more about our culture and values, and the environment you will be working in.
Responsibilities
- Drive architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions aligned to customer business goals using frameworks like CAF and WAF.
- Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM.
- Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof of concept and production milestones, across infrastructure, data, SAP, and AI workloads.
- Deliver repeatable IP 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 across key Factory engagements.
- Maintain technical intensity through continuous skilling and certifications in priority workloads such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, SAP (Native + 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND few years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND few years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- few years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
- few years experience working on technical projects
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
- English is a must and German would be a benefit
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.