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With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty. We are seeking a Cloud Solution Architect in the CSA Global Delivery organization with deep expertise in Identity and Security. As a key technical resource for the customer, you will be primarily focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments, and providing tailored guidance. Troubleshooting skills are essential as this role will include working with Microsoft Support to expedite incident resolution. The CSA Global Delivery team is a centralized group consisting of both full-time employees (FTEs) and Vendor CSAs dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft as they transition to hybrid/public cloud solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Planning and delivering proactive and reactive support including onsite presence as needed
Identify and manage customer goals and SfMC opportunities to improve the quality, consumption, and health of the customer’s solution
Drive and participate in proactive delivery management: spot performance issues, analyze problems, and drive activities focused on stabilizing and optimizing your customer’s solution
Work with internal Microsoft support teams, account teams, product engineering and service engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure a streamlined and efficient customer support experience
Apply and share lessons learned for continuous process and delivery improvement for the customer and peers
Engage in meetings with your customers and account teams to review Support for Mission Critical services, customer support issues, and articulate your Customer Success Plans
Share and gain knowledge through technical communities
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
4+ years experience working on technical projects
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Outstanding customer service skills with excellent oral and written communication skills as well as experience providing training to peers or customers
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, engineers, developers, and architects as well as executives and management professionals in both customer and Microsoft teams
Experience leading and driving projects as well as motivating others
Self-motivated, resourceful, and able to handle multiple responsibilities as a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect
Ability to develop strong strategic customer relationships that gain the trust and respect of customers
Ability to handle critical technical issues and work in difficult support situations
Ability to handle difficult or sensitive situations with customers
Nice to have:
Threat protection, SIEM and Incident Response
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Security Operation Center Management
Identity and Access Management
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Data Security
Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft 365 Security Administrator, Microsoft Security Operations, Cloud Security, CCSP, CEH, OSCP, GSEC