Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Azure Platform

Overview

Overview

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 at Microsoft.

In 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, PostgreSQL, 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 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, 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

Responsibilities

• Achieve technical wins across the portfolio of Azure cloud services you're accountable for.
• Lead the technical journey for Azure migration with customers, using Microsoft processes, tools, demos, programs and partners. Use a consultative and/or Challenger approach, and set clear rules of engagement for extended teams, such as role boundaries and handoff strategies.
• Drive technical sales using demos, proofs of concept and architecture accelerators to shape solution design and enable deployments.
• Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to speed up Azure adoption.
• Build strategy by turning the agreed customer vision into a clear plan. Address concerns, prevent and remove technical blockers, validate a strong business case for investment, and explain technical complexity in terms of business impact.
• Work with the customer, account team and partners to build and manage an implementation roadmap.
• Keep project decisions, delivery and implementation moving at pace with customers and partners.
• Build trusted relationships with customer platform leads to co-design secure, scalable solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers by working with engineering teams and sharing customer insights.
• Scale through partners by acting as the liaison between partners and the account team. Help partners access resources and processes, identify skill and resource gaps, and share feedback with internal teams to build partner technical capacity.
• Identify and support new pipeline opportunities within customer engagements.
• Maintain deep expertise in cloud migration (Windows, SQL, Linux, PostgreSQL and application workloads), resiliency, security and compliance.
• Continue building knowledge of enterprise applications (SAP, Oracle) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).

Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $96,000 - CAD $177,600 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Solution Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 96,000 $ CAD à 177,600 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la demande d’accommodement.

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