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Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer

Microsoft


Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Yearly Salary: CAD 177600 - 177600
Posted: 22 October 2026 (16 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 19 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

Are you curious enthusiastic about infrastructure and ready to solve complex challenges in the Frontier AI era Join us as aCloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer forcommercial customersat Microsoft.

In this technical sales role you will help customers design secure scalable resilient and sovereign cloud architectures that support their Frontier transformation and modernization goals and guide organizations through modernization migration and transformation translating technical capabilities into significant business outcomes.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility reduce costs and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.

As aCloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer you will play a key role in helping customers modernize their Platform Estate including hardware software applications databases security and networking with the full value of Microsofts cloud. You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design secure scalable resilient compliant and sovereign architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation. As a trusted technical advisor youll guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure solutions and deployment.

You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloadsincluding Windows Linux and Oracleto Azure. Beyond migration you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy containerization best practices and Azure-native services like AKS while exploring how Agentic AI and Tooling (e.g. Azure Copilot GitHub Copilot Agentic Assessment) can accelerate Frontier transformation.

You complement this with strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions including virtual networks VPNs secure routing architectures and trusted partner solutions to ensure secure optimized and scalable solutions.

As you join the team you will have the opportunity to accelerate your career growth develop deep business acumen hone your technical skills and become adept at solution design and summary youll help customers modernize their existing platforms to realize the full value of Microsofts platform all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset 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.



Responsibilities
  • Own technical discussions for Azure Migration with customers leveraging processes and tools demos and programs; use consultative and/or Challenger method; establish rules of engagement (e.g. role boundaries handoff strategies) for extended teams.

  • Build strategy: map the agreed customer vision into a strategy resolve concerns preventing and removing technical blockers and validating a strong business case for investment and translated technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer account team and partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.

  • Drive technical assessments to create a map of the current landscape and to build the technical migration plans thus building a solid migration business case.

  • Design the solution using your technical knowledge architectural approach consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customers technical decision and meet the customers needs. Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan. Drive POCs and MVPs.

  • Scale through partners acting as liaison between the partner and account team facilitating partner resources and processes; supporting partner technical capacity by identifying skill and resource gaps and providing feedback to internal teams.

  • Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices connect with the Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.

  • Identify and support the creation of new pipeline within customer engagements in collaboration with the Specialist.



Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
  • Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 3 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 4 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
  • 6 years technical pre-sales technical consulting or technology delivery or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 4 years experience with cloud and hybrid or on premises infrastructures architecture designs migrations industry standards and/or technology management.
  • Deep domain knowledge in Data Center Migration Windows Server and SQL Server Migration (including modernization to PaaS) VMware Networking Security Storage BCDR Infra as Code Hybrid and Arc or hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level. Additionally deep knowledge/experience with Azure Migrate and RVTools.

  • Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of competitor cloud migration platforms infrastructure and services including hybrid cloud technologies.

  • Experience creating cloud migration Proofof Concepts (PoC) MinimumViable Products (MVPs)for customersthat lead to production deployments.

  • Relationship Building: Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. The ability to influence and build relationships across technical and business teams.

  • Excellent Communicator: Demonstrates executive presence presentation skills deep technical product demo abilities written and verbal communication skills.

  • Collaborative: Works cohesively with customers the Microsoft account team and Microsoft partners. Helps others succeed by identifying and promoting innovative solutions and strategies.



Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $96000 - CAD $177600 per year.

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Engineering IC4 - Léchelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans lensemble du Canada est de 96000 $ CAD à 177600 $ CAD par année.

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poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusquà ce que le poste soit pourvu.


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



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