Are you passionate about helping customers optimize their Azure infrastructure? We are seeking an experienced Azure Infrastructure Technical Specialist to guide customers in making technical decisions, implementing cloud solutions, and driving the adoption of Microsoft Azure services. You will play a pivotal role in customer engagements, demonstrating Azure capabilities and ensuring technical wins to support our sales strategies.

As an Azure Infrastructure Technical Specialist, you will engage with customers to guide them towards technical decisions, leveraging our sales strategy to address their digital transformation and align our technology with their business needs. You will play a crucial role in demonstrating Microsoft solutions, applying architectures to client scenarios, and engaging in partner sell-with scenarios to leverage our partner ecosystem.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Engage proactively with customers, understanding their infrastructure needs and providing tailored Azure solutions.
• Demonstrate Azure technologies through technical presentations, demos, and workshops, ensuring technical decision wins.
• Maintain deep technical expertise in Azure services, continuously updating knowledge on new features and industry trends.
• Scale Customer Engagements: Proactively reach out to customers, use deep knowledge of Azure solutions and industry standards to build credibility, and lead technical discussions to ensure technical wins.
• Leverage Partner Ecosystem: Act as a liaison between partners and Microsoft, facilitating resources and processes throughout project engagements.
• Build Strategy: Capture and deliver competitive insights back to our product teams, provide strategic, technical, and partner input to develop compete strategies and customer success plans.
• Solution Design and Proof: Oversee demonstrations, such as architectural design sessions and proof of concept (POC) sessions, to showcase the integration and capabilities of Microsoft solutions.
  
  

Other

• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience.
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
  

Technology Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $121,800 - CAD $219,100 per year.

Find additional pay information here: Canada pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 27, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.