Responsibilities

• Directly engaging with customers to de-risk and accelerate deployments in Azure and validating architectures through design reviews as well as provide learnings and feedback to the Product Group.  
• Helping customers migrate and/or build workloads throughout their Azure journey toward production and expanding their cloud footprint.  
• You will partner with various Azure Engineering subject matter experts to scope and build customer facing content, tools and proof of concepts as well as drive product improvement and act as subject matter expert for other engineers in one or more of the many Azure Services.   
• Interact daily with other FastTrack Engineers to provide technical action plans or take ownership of situations that require escalation.  
• Helping ensure that Azure is a cloud platform that meet customer needs, by partnering with product groups to prioritize customer feedback and issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• Proven experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
• Very good understanding of best practices within Azure Infrastructure
• Experience with architecting solutions and helping to deploy them in Azure

Communication skills: strong communication skills to effectively drive recommendations and land priorities across customers, partners, senior executives and across organizational boundaries, either in face-to-face or remote delivery environments.  

Dealing with ambiguity: have the ability to take initiative and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands and shifting priorities. 

Collaboration: collaborate on complex multi-faceted programs in a dynamic environment working across Customer, Partner and other internal Microsoft account teams and service areas. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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