Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect - Infra

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Remote, Japan or Tokyo, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver Support Mission Critical Service offerings for enterprise customers and coordinate with customer success, support, engineering, and other internal teams.
  • Lead proactive resiliency efforts covering reliability, security, supportability, manageability, and monitoring and observability.
  • Coordinate customer onboarding, including Consolidated Assessment Week Delivery, remediate workload recommendations, and implement workload-specific service improvement and customer success plans.
  • Support accelerated incident resolution by tracking critical incidents and ensuring root-cause analyses and recommendations are captured and shared.
  • Drive customer-owned monitoring and observability capabilities and coordinate relevant onboarding resources.
  • Lead cross-team partnerships, operational reviews, post-incident analysis, and stakeholder coordination across global time zones.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Proven experience in Cloud Solutions Architecture or Mission Critical Support for enterprise customers.
  • Deep knowledge of Azure infrastructure services, including compute, storage, networking, Azure Kubernetes Service, and PaaS offerings.
  • Strong troubleshooting experience with distributed systems and mission-critical workloads, including performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience managing high-severity incidents and providing rapid mitigation strategies.
  • Experience with financial services customers or other highly regulated industries is required; large-scale financial platform experience is preferred.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for executive updates and technical deep dives, with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and global support teams.
  • Business proficiency in Japanese.
  • Preferred expertise in virtualization, VM performance tuning, cache optimization, observability tools, telemetry, proactive monitoring, and large-scale infrastructure operations.
  • Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and ITIL or a similar service management certification.

Tech Stack

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Solutions Engineering
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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