Cloud Solution Architect

**Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Apps**:
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date posted

**Oct 03, 2025**
- Job number

**1887217**
- Work site

**0 days / week in-office - remote**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Customer Success**
- Discipline

**Cloud Solution Architecture**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- In Microsoft, Small Medium Enterprise & Channel (SME&C) team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Cloud & AI Apps reporting to the Cloud Solution Architect Manager, you will enable SMC (Small, Medium, and Corporate) customers & Partners to achieve their business outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
- 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.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years technical leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience working with Agile/Scrum, CI/CD or DevOps models involving multiple disciplines of coding, testing and deployment
- Solution Architecture (e.g., SOA, enterprise architecture).
- Solid Solution Design and Development skills
- Experience with Modern.NET technologies (e.g.,.NET 8/9, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Dapr).
- Advanced written, spoken English level with direct customer facing experience.

**Technical Expertise**:
Azure Cloud Solution Architects should be experienced at implementing, automating, and troubleshooting Microsoft Azure based solutions.
- The Azure Cloud Solution Architect role requires knowledge and experience in several the following technologies/areas:

- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, Containers and Orchestrators & Microservices
- Azure Functions
- Azure DevOps & Secure DevOps: Application Security Principles and Practices
- Azure App Service
- Azure API Management
- Azure Front Door
- Azure App Dev using broader range of Azure PAAS Services
- Azure Application Security
- Azure Application Insights
- Azure Redis cache
- Azure Cosmos DB & Azure SQL
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure EventHub
- Azure Traffic Manager
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Application Insights
- GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security
- Developing Cross-Platform Web Apps with ASP.NET Core
- Rest APIs
- Building Cloud-native Applications using Microservices Architecture
- Experience in Azure AI on following topics is a plus

Other technical areas we look for real world demonstrated ability are:

- Azure Infrastructure Fundamentals (Compute, Storage, Migration, Security)
- Azure Networking
- Microsoft Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, Zero Trust Security knowledge and experience.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and support experience
- Face-to-face customer engagement skills
- Technical Delivery and Customer facing presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.
- Must have the ability to take on internal initiatives to create services opportunities, and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands, addressing shifting priorities, and maintaining focus.
- Troubleshooting knowledge & skills, Microsoft Certifications qualifications desirable

Additional qualification required:

- Analytical Problem Solving
- Building Customer/Partner Relationships
- Leadership
- Value Selling

**Responsibilities**:

- Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Insights about Customer/Partner and Industry): Gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and map architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights.
- Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Internal Advocacy): Act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT).
- Architecture Design and Deployment (Architecture Proposals): Receive and synthesize data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, address them with technical architecture(s), demonstrate and prove those solutions capability and business value through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
- Application Development, Archit