Cloud & AI Solution Engineer, AI Application - Canberra

Overview
Are you curious, passionate about AI and cloud technologies, and excited by the opportunity to solve complex challenges in a fast-paced environment? If so, we invite you to join Microsoft as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer.

We are hiring multiple roles across our Infrastructure and AI Applications teams in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra. In these roles, you'll be at the forefront of projects that harness the latest technologies to help customers modernize applications, adopt AI at scale, and transform their businesses.

As a Solution Engineer, you'll work side-by-side with customers and partners to design and deploy secure, scalable, AI-powered solutions. You'll engage in hands-on activities such as proof of concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops, while providing trusted technical guidance on the use of Azure AI, AI Foundry, Responsible AI, and Microsoft's cloud platform.

This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career, deepen your technical expertise, and shape the future of AI applications. Join a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning, while making a meaningful impact with customers across Australia.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales conversations with business and technical decision makers, using demos and proof-of-concepts to shape solution design and accelerate production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements such as hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops to fast-track adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leaders, co-designing secure, scalable, and innovative architectures.
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, working closely with engineering teams to provide feedback and influence product improvements.
• Develop and maintain expertise in AI Foundry and AI application architecture, including Agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, and Responsible AI.
• Grow skills in cloud-native development, including APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven systems, and programming in Python, Java, or .NET.
• Expand knowledge in AI management and security, including GenAI Ops, Sentinel, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Represent Microsoft as a thought leader in developer communities and customer forums.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

• Cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures

• Architecture design and migrations

• Industry standards and/or technology management

• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines, such as:

• Azure Architect and Development exams

• Cloud Platform Technologies
• Architecture

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.