Microsoft Digital Technical Specialist - Applications & Infrastructure 

Ireland, Dublin 

374883370

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND several years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
• Experience with management of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e., Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, HPC, and Infra as a code technologies)
• Experience with scalable architectures using App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in Dutch is desired but not essential
• Strong technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience.
• Strong experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs
• Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
• Deployment and app refactoring/migrations
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).

• 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.
  • Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with the Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
  • Maintain and grow expertise in cloud migration, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.

• Build stratergy maps the agreed customer vision into a strategy, resolve concerns and validate a strong business case for investment. Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
• Identify new opportunities within customer engagement and hand off to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.
• 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 solutions using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s 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.
  • Support the creation of new pipeline in collaboration with the Specialist.
  • Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to find and understand customers’ pain points and design and offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders.
• Be an Azure platform evangelist for Migration scenarios like Hybrid Compute, Backup and DR, Desktop Virtualization, and Specialized Workloads such as AVS & SAP
• Develop customer technical skilling plan in collaboration with customer and account team