Microsoft Technology/Software

Azure Infrastructure Solution Engineer

Tokyo, Japan In person Full-time

Overview

Are you curious, enthusiastic about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the Frontier AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer for commercial customers at Microsoft.

In this technical sales role, you will help customers design secure, scalable, resilient, and sovereign cloud architectures that support their Frontier transformation and modernization goals and guide organizations through modernization, migration, and transformation — translating technical capabilities into significant business outcomes.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead Platform Estate modernization & Sovereign Cloud customer engagements.

Drive technical workshop using live technical demos, co-create with customers whiteboarding & architecture, rapid prototyping, hands-on proofs of concept & pilots to resolve technical blockers.

Prove technical solutions, co-create or re-use existing architecture to influence solution design and enable customer commitment for deployments.

Maintain deep expertise in cloud migration (Windows, Linux, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance.

Know main market enterprise apps: SAP, Oracle and VMware.

5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

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

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR equivalent experience

Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, Linux, VM.

Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.

Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot (GHCP), Agentic tooling, Windows Server, Linux, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Defender for Cloud.

Strong understanding of Azure services, including networking, security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.

Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., prototyping, pilot, PoCs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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