1 day ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with customer IT decision-makers and act as the Voice of the Customer by removing technical blockers with Microsoft engineering and product teams.
- Lead architecture design sessions for secure, scalable, and resilient Azure infrastructure using the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework.
- Drive end-to-end technical outcomes, customer success plans, Azure consumption milestones, migration initiatives, modernization efforts, proof-of-concepts, and production milestones.
- Collaborate with application, data, SAP, security, AI, delivery, partner, and customer stakeholders to deliver comprehensive technical outcomes.
- Help customers continuously optimize Azure environments for health, resiliency, security, performance, and operational excellence.
- Maintain technical depth through continuous learning, hands-on experience, and relevant Azure infrastructure and platform certifications.
- Share architecture patterns, best practices, and reusable knowledge through technical communities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, architecture, consulting, or related areas; equivalent experience is accepted.
- Ability to work directly with customers and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.
- Business-level Japanese language skills.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 4+ years of customer-facing experience engaging technical and business decision-makers and translating requirements into technical solutions and outcomes.
- Preferred: 4+ years leading or contributing to technical projects involving architecture, cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure, or platform technologies.
- Preferred: technical certifications in cloud or security technologies, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or relevant security certifications.
- Preferred: experience with Azure infrastructure and platform technologies including Windows and Linux, networking, identity, security, migration, hybrid cloud, containers, databases, or SAP.
- Preferred: ability to communicate and collaborate in English with global engineering, product, and delivery teams.
Benefits
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.