[Hiring] Azure Solution Engineer @Microsoft

Role Description

As the Azure Solution Engineer, you will lead the future of AI-powered transformation for some of the world's most influential Telco, Media, and Gaming organizations. The Azure Solution Engineer will be at the forefront of cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact.

As an Azure Solution Engineer, you will help customers design secure, scalable, resilient, and database or sovereign cloud or SAP architectures that support their Frontier transformation and modernization goals and guide organizations through migration, modernization, and transformation — translating technical capabilities into significant business outcomes.

• Play a pivotal role in helping enterprise developers understand the value of Azure Databases or Azure Sovereign or SAP on Azure across every stage of the development & deployment lifecycle.
• Work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation.
• Guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure.
• Accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment.
• Help customers modernize their existing platforms to realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.
• Influence technical decisions and accelerate Agentic AI integration into their development & deployment workflows.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep expertise in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET).
• Maintain and grow expertise in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
• Embody our culture and values.

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.
• 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).

Requirements

• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.

Benefits

• Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year.
• There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.