Job Reference: 211125

Key Responsibilities

• Applications Technologist. Deep experience with born-in-the-cloud modern applications cloud infrastructure is required.
• Technical Sales. 2+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales and/or technical consulting roles preferred.
• Implementation/Delivery Skills. Ability to implement Proof-of-Concepts and train infra/dev engineers (customer in-house & partner) for delivery required. For Infra Technologists, this means the ability to deploy VMs, design and configure networking, set-up for BC/DR, write scripts for Infra-as-code, etc. For App Technologists, this means the ability to code modern apps (web, mobile, chatbots, etc.), configure CI/CD, migrate legacy apps to Azure PaaS, etc.
• Technical breadth. Deep-enough understanding of the various IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Azure components in order to piece solutions together required.
• Excellent Communicator. Communication and collaboration, organizational, presentation, deep technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills required. Ability to present Azure at various levels. Business-level presentations for manager and director levels and deep technical presentations for technical architects, leads and engineers.
• Cloud Trust. Demonstrated knowledge of identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance, and how they factor into cloud and hybrid solutions preferred.
• Collaborative. Able to work cohesively with customers, members of the Microsoft (or similar) sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft (or similar) partners required.
• Consultative Technical Selling and Challenger mindset. Validated experience in consultative technical selling approach, including bringing innovative ideas to customers problems and being customer focused preferred.
• Performer. Highly driven passionate person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations required.
• Growth Mindset. Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from the experience; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit required.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field required.
• Azure Certification (70-532, 70-533, and/or 70-535) or other relevant Certifications (Linux, Agile, etc.) preferred.
• Practical experience in implementing Azure projects preferred.
• Practical experience in infrastructure sizing and cloud architecture (typically based on the application requirements) preferred.
• Practical experience in any of the following areas: coding skills Node.JS, PHP or C#, DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins or others preferred.
• Strong understanding of cloud application patterns & designs desired.
• Experience in running public cloud application in Azure, GCP or AWS desired.
• Active community contributor e.g., GitHub, Meetups, Blog Posts, conferences and presentations desired.