Job Description
Microsoft Azure Technical Specialist
Microsoft is seeking an experienced Azure Technical Specialist to join its agile and diverse team in Cloud infrastructure solutions.
As a Microsoft Technology Specialist, you will be responsible for winning technical decisions from customers to purchase and use Microsoft technology and cloud services.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own technical discussions for Azure Migration with customers, leveraging processes and tools, demos, and programs.
- Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with the Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
- Maintain and grow expertise in cloud migration, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights.
- Build strategy, map the agreed customer vision into a strategy, resolve concerns and validate a strong business case for investment.
- Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
- Identify new opportunities within customer engagement and hand off to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.
- Drive technical assessments to create a map of the current landscape and to build the technical migration plans.
- Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer's technical decision and meet the customer's needs.
- Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan.
- Drive POCs and MVPs.
- Scale through partners, acting as liaison between the partner and account team, facilitating partner resources and processes.
- Support the creation of new pipeline in collaboration with the Specialist.
- Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to find and understand customers' pain points and design and offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders.
- Be an Azure platform evangelist for Migration scenarios like Hybrid Compute, Backup and DR, Desktop Virtualization, and Specialized Workloads such as AVS & SAP.
- Develop customer technical skilling plan in collaboration with customer and account team.
Microsoft is an inclusive employer and a member of the LGBTQ+ business community. The company is committed to creating a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Qualifications:
- Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms.
- Strong technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
- Several years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
- Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
- Experience with management of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e., Windows and Linux Iaa S, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, HPC, and Infra as a code technologies).
- Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (i.e., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs etc.
- Experience with Identity/Security (Azure): Identity, Security Architecture, Security Management and Network Security.
- Language requirement is English.
- Preferred Languages: Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.