Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Networking

And within CAIP, theWorldwide Technical Successoperatesas the bridge between product direction, sales strategy, and scalable delivery execution. It plays a pivotal role in enabling the field, building scale through the Field and Factory, development of reusable intellectual property (IP) and assets, managing field technical escalations and product blockers, influencing product direction, and engaging in high-priority customer engagements

We areseekinga highly experienced SeniorCloudSolution Architect-AzureNetworkingwho combines deep technicalexpertisewith 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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning where employees are encouraged to make a meaningful impact for customers and the wider technology community.

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.

• Identifyrecurring customer challenges and industry trends and translate them into scalable guidance andenablementcontent 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 byidentifyingblockers, 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.

• Providearchitectural guidance for complex networking modernization efforts, hybrid cloud deployments, data center migrations, and multi-cloud networking scenarios.

• Collaborate with delivery teams tovalidatedesigns and ensure alignment with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework principles.

• Assistpartners 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 deepexpertisein 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND4+yearsexperienceincloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

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• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• Abilityto meet Microsoft,customerand/or government security screening requirements arerequiredfor this role. These requirementsinclude butare not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions whererequiredorpermittedby applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

Additionalor preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND8+years’experienceincloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

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• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND6+years’experienceincloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

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• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+years’experienceworkingin a customer-facing role (e.g.,internaland/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(s)in Cloudwith a preferencefor Azure Networking and Architecture certifications.(e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

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.

Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Coreaccelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.

WithinMCAPS-Core, Cloud + AI Platforms (CAIP)is one of the most strategic businesses worldwide at Microsoft. Given the tremendous momentum in customer pursuit of Digital Transformation,there’snever been a more exciting & compelling time to be a part of the Cloud + AI Platform business at Microsoft!