Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure - French Speaker

Microsoft; Occitanie; Sur place; EUR 50 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading technology company is seeking a talented individual to drive cloud adoption initiatives while ensuring the technical infrastructure aligns with customer goals. The ideal candidate has experience in cloud technologies and excellent interpersonal skills. Join a diverse team that values innovation and inclusivity in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in related field.
• Experience working in customer-facing roles.

Responsabilités

• Build relationships with IT decision makers for cloud adoption.
• Lead architectural design sessions.
• Drive migration and modernization initiatives.

Connaissances

Cloud and infrastructure technologies

Collaboration and customer engagement

Technical project management

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field

Outils

Azure

Terraform

PowerShell

Description du poste

Overview

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging AI and our partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and want to make a meaningful impact, explore SME&C as the next step in your career.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with key customer IT decision makers to drive long-term cloud adoption and serve as the Voice of the Customer—sharing insights and removing blockers through collaboration with Microsoft engineering teams.
• Lead architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions aligned to customer business goals using frameworks like CAF and WAF.
• Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM.
• Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof of concept and production milestones, across infrastructure, data, SAP, and AI workloads.
• Ensure customer environments are optimized for health, resiliency, security, and performance—enabling production-scale AI use cases.
• Deliver repeatable IP and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.
• Identify and resolve technical blockers to accelerate go-live and ensure delivery excellence across key Factory engagements.
• Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions and aligning with Unified Enterprise Support (ES) priorities.
• Maintain technical intensity through continuous skilling and certifications in priority workloads such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, SAP (Native + RISE), Windows, Linux and Defender for Cloud.
• Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (internal and/or external).
• 4+ years experience working on technical projects

A Strong Focus On

Infrastructure & Platform Expertise

• Virtual Machines (VMs) – Windows and Linux
• Networking – VNETs, VPNs, ExpressRoute, Load Balancers, Network Security Groups
• Storage – Blob, Disk, File, Backup, Recovery Services Vault
• Identity & Access Management – Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Conditional Access
• Security – Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Azure Policy, Sentinel
• Hybrid Cloud – Azure Arc, on-premises integration, VMware, and Hyper-V
• Containers & Infra as Code – AKS, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates
• Monitoring & Management – Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights

Architecture & Design

• Cloud-based solution architecture (IaaS and PaaS)
• Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Cloud Adoption Framework
• Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

DevOps & Automation

• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
• PowerShell, CLI, Ansible
• CI/CD pipelines and automation scripting

Certifications

• Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.