Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities (Text Only)

Customer Centricity:

• Customer Satisfaction: Drive positive customer satisfaction and become a trusted advisor.
• Customer/Partner Insights: Provide feedback and insights from customers and partners.
• Voice of Customer: Share insights and best practices, connect with Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering, and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap.
• Solution Delivery: Land an end-to-end value proposition for Security (i.e., Zero Trust) covering Microsoft Security offerings, focusing on Threat Protection, ID + Identity and Access Management, and Cloud Security.

Business Impact:

• Position and deliver solutions that drive Security product usage, develop opportunities to enhance customer success, and help customers realize value from their Microsoft investments.
• Identify resolutions to customer blockers leveraging subject matter expertise, delivering according to Microsoft best practices and using repeatable IP.
• Accelerate the business value of security adoption by improving security posture and ensuring solutions exhibit a 'Secure by Design' framework, emphasizing performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment.

Technical Leadership:

• Continuous Learning: Align personal skills with team demands and customer success goals.
• Knowledge Sharing: Share expertise, contribute to IP creation and reuse to accelerate customer outcomes.
• Solution Planning: Run architectural design sessions to develop implementation plans aligned with customer business goals and technical environment, reaching consensus on design and next steps.
• Collaboration: Work with Cloud Solution Architects, FastTrack, partners, and Microsoft Consulting to develop complex enterprise security solutions. Note: The role requires working 80% onsite.

Qualifications (Text Only)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience, recent relevant experience in cybersecurity, cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, or Business Applications consulting.
• Broad technical experience and knowledge in architecture design, with depth in identity.
• Business-level fluency in French and English.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID in Identity and Access Management solutions, including hybrid solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical aptitude and experience to learn new cloud security technologies and understand market trends.
• Knowledge of the competitive landscape of cloud security platforms.
• Subject Matter Expertise in at least two of the following: Certificate Services (PKI), MS Certifications SC200, SC300 (Identity), AZ500.
• Preferences for skills in cloud security architecture, Azure Security solutions like Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel, and secure Azure implementation.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, disability, political affiliation, veteran status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal history, in accordance with legal requirements. For assistance or accommodations due to disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.