Cloud Solution Architect - Infra - English and German Speaking

at  Microsoft

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
In the Customer Success team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Infrastructure, you will enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical expertise, you will ensure customers get value from their MS investments. Microsoft aspires to help our customers architect and deploy first class cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure to be AI Ready by applying scalable best practices in the cloud with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption for AI Innovation within the most important companies in the market.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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.

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Fluency in English and German is essential.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 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 equivalent experience.
• Experience working in a customer-facing role, working with executives and managing various stakeholders (e.g., internal and/or external).

ADDITIONAL OR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects and the ability to influence and build relationships across technical and business teams.
• Deep domain knowledge in Data Center Migration, PaaS, virtualization and VMware, Networking, identity management, Security, Storage, BCDR, Resiliency, Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), automation, Hybrid and Arc.
• Experience creating cloud adoption framework that leads to a successful customer production deployment.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Experience with Azure technologies and services such as Azure migrate, containers, Apps and data cross solutions with infrastructure.
• Knowledge of DevOps and GitHub.