Cloud & AI Platform Solution Engineer

Overview

Do you want your technical expertise to help the world's humanitarian, development and peacekeeping institutions deliver on their mandates? Microsoft Elevate's Cloud & AI Platform Solution Engineering team partners with these international organizations to modernize their platforms securely and build the foundations for AI at scale.

As a Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer, you will be the trusted technical advisor for the United Nations System. You will design secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support mission-critical applications, AI transformation, and win technical decisions on Azure solutions. You bring deep expertise in migrating and modernizing core workloads, including Windows, Linux, SQL Server and Oracle, containerization and Azure-native services such as AKS, and you use agentic tooling such as GitHub Copilot and Azure Copilot to accelerate the journey. You pair this with robust hybrid and cloud-native networking knowledge.

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, 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

• Lead platform estate modernization and cloud engagements with the United Nations System, designing architectures that meet their data residency, regionalization, security and compliance requirements.
• Win the technical decision through discovery and envisioning workshops, live demos, whiteboarding, rapid prototyping, proofs of concept and pilots that resolve technical blockers and secure architecture commitment.
• Prove technical solutions by co-creating or reusing reference architectures, building technical close plans and moving milestones from proof of concept to production and consumption.
• Maintain deep expertise in cloud migration (Windows, Linux and application workloads), networking, resiliency, security and compliance, with working knowledge of enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle and VMware.
• Translate technical capabilities into mission outcomes for CIOs, CISOs and business leaders, linking modernization to well-governed AI adoption.
• Extend reach and coverage by partnering with Account Executives, Solution Area Specialists, Customer Success, FastTrack and partner technical teams, using co-sell partners and modernization programs as an extension of the engagement.
• Continuously build technical depth and consultative selling skills, and share reusable assets across the Elevate community.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrable technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND demonstrable technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND demonstrable technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • OR equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, Linux, and VMs.
• Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot (GHCP), agentic tooling, Windows Server, Linux, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Defender for Cloud.
• Proficient understanding of Azure services, including networking, security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., prototyping, pilots, and PoCs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Experience supporting system organizations, International Government Organizations, multilateral development banks or other public sector and mission-driven organizations.
• Knowledge of regulatory and data protection frameworks such as GDPR and public sector compliance standards, and of data sovereignty considerations for international organizations.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and ISVs like NetApp, VMware, and Red Hat.

Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Switzerland is CHF 126,000.00 - CHF 208,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.