About the Job:
Are you curious and passionate about infrastructure, ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Digital Solution Engineer focused on the Azure platform for mid-market customers at Microsoft.
In this technical sales role, you’ll help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support their modernization goals. Using Azure’s IaaS and PaaS services, you’ll guide organizations through migration, optimization, and innovation—translating technical capabilities into real business outcomes.
You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure. As a Cloud & AI Digital Solution Engineer for the Azure platform, you’ll play a key role in helping mid-market customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft’s cloud.
You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and business-critical applications. With expertise in migrating core workloads—including Windows, SQL Server, Linux, PostgreSQL, and Oracle—to Azure, you'll lead customers through modernization, using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Azure-native services like AKS and Arc.
Additionally, strong networking knowledge is essential to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures, meeting enterprise performance and compliance needs. You will complement your designs with trusted partner solutions like NetApp, VMware, RedHat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience.
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical sales using technical demos, proof of concepts, and architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable deployments.
- Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to accelerate Azure adoption.
- Build trusted relationships with platform leads to co-design secure, scalable solutions.
- Resolve technical blockers in collaboration with engineering and share customer insights.
- Maintain expertise in cloud migration, resiliency, security, and compliance.
- Deepen knowledge of enterprise apps and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
- Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field AND 4+ years of technical experience OR a Master's Degree in the same fields AND 3+ years of technical experience OR equivalent experience.
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Platform, and containerization strategies.
- Strong understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
- Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery experience OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience with cloud and hybrid or on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and ISVs like NetApp, VMware, and RedHat.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and Public Sector compliance standards.
Location: Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Work Conditions: Hybrid, Full-time
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance due to a disability during the application process, please read more about requesting accommodations.
