[Hiring] Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Networking @Microsoft

Role Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Azure Networking who combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to accelerate Azure Networking adoption and customer success. This role focuses on developing and scaling Azure Networking intellectual property, influencing product direction through customer and partner engagement, supporting migration and implementation initiatives, and collaborating with engineering teams to resolve complex customer challenges.

The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted advisor across Microsoft, customers, partners, and engineering teams to drive best practices for networking modernization, hybrid connectivity, cloud migration, security, resiliency, and large-scale Azure networking deployments.

Responsibilities

• Azure Networking Strategy and Intellectual Property Development:
  • Develop, maintain, and guide the creation of Azure Networking intellectual property (IP), including reference architectures, migration frameworks, implementation guidance, design patterns, best practices, workshops, white papers, technical training, and reusable customer-facing assets.
  • Create and curate comprehensive guidance for customers migrating network architectures and workloads from on-premises environments and other cloud providers to Azure.
  • Educate internal teams, partners, and customers on Azure Networking capabilities, design principles, operational best practices, security, resiliency, performance, and governance.
  • Identify recurring customer challenges and industry trends and translate them into scalable guidance and enablement content that accelerates customer success.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools and automation to improve content development, architectural analysis, knowledge dissemination, and field enablement.
• Product Advocacy and Engineering Engagement:
  • Serve as a strategic liaison between customers, partners, field organizations, consulting teams, and Azure Networking product groups.
  • Represent customer and partner requirements to engineering teams and advocate for features, enhancements, and platform investments that improve customer outcomes.
  • Lead the collection and synthesis of customer feedback, implementation experiences, and market insights to influence Azure Networking product roadmaps.
  • Author and present technical depth papers, architectural recommendations, and customer-driven proposals that help shape future Azure Networking capabilities.
  • Act as the Voice of the Customer by identifying blockers, escalating systemic issues, and partnering with engineering teams to drive resolution.
• Migration and Implementation Enablement:
  • Support internal consulting, delivery, and migration execution teams in the design and implementation of Azure Networking solutions.
  • Provide architectural guidance for complex networking modernization efforts, hybrid cloud deployments, data center migrations, and multi-cloud networking scenarios.
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to validate designs and ensure alignment with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework principles.
  • Assist partners and field teams in overcoming technical barriers during large-scale migration and transformation engagements.
  • Develop repeatable migration methodologies, reference architectures, and deployment patterns that improve implementation consistency and customer outcomes.
• Community and Technical Leadership:
  • Serve as an Azure Networking evangelist across Microsoft, customer, partner, and community ecosystems.
  • Curate and deliver technical enablement through workshops, OpenHacks, LevelUps, conferences, and community engagements.
  • Maintain deep expertise in Azure Networking technologies, emerging cloud trends, competitive offerings, and industry best practices.
  • Foster collaboration across Microsoft teams to accelerate networking innovation, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ 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 equivalent experience.
• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Requirements

• 4+ years’ experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and deploying core Azure Networking services (e.g., Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall, Azure Virtual WAN, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door, and DNS), with strong command of network security, resiliency, and performance optimization.
• 3+ years leading network modernization, data center migration, and hybrid or multi-cloud connectivity initiatives, including migrating network architectures and workloads from on-premises environments or other cloud providers to Azure.
• Experience acting as a liaison between customers, partners, field teams, and product engineering groups — synthesizing customer feedback and market insights to influence product roadmaps and advocating for platform enhancements.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or security certifications).

Benefits

• Cloud Solution Architecture 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.