Microsoft Technology Specialist - Azure Infrastructure 

Ireland, Dublin 

538338096

Required Qualifications:

• Significant years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery with relevant technology experience
  • OR Bachelor's DegreeOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND significant years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
  • Azure Certifications: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Exam AZ-305)
  • 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 Proof of Concepts (PoC), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers that lead to production deployment

• 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 and map the agreed customer vision into a strategy, resolve concerns, prevent and remove technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment and translated technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer, sales specialists, 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 customer’s technical Discussions and meet the customer’s needs. Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan. Drive Proof of Concepts (POC) and Minimal Viable Products (MVP).
• Scale through partners, acting as liaison between the partner, sales specialists 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 and Product teams to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
• Identify and support the creation of new pipeline within customer engagements in collaboration with the Specialist.