Cloud Solution Architecture Ic5

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Strategic Account Mission Critical Senior CSA, Azure IaaS

Do you have a passion for Azure IaaS and using best-in-class tools created by Microsoft? Are you looking for a role where you can interact directly with large enterprise customers to improve the stability and performance of the solutions they are deploying in Azure? Do you want to join one of Microsoft''s fastest growing businesses? If so, we are looking for you

As Mission Critical Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) you interact with the customer on a regular basis in a proactive and programmatic manner. You are familiar with the solutions and customer’s organization. You bring deep technical knowledge and “know me” of the overall solution and understand how it contributes to the customer’s business goals. You define and own execution of architectural updates to customer’s environment to meet optimization goals.

During a critical situation, you function as the customer’s single point of contact. You are the link between the customer, support and engineering. You provide the context of the solution and the impact of the current critical situation. You provide the available status information at the right level back to the customer.

Your proactive technical work lays the foundation for a successful operation of the solution. You deliver solution-oriented proactive services to ensure solution reliability, stability and optimal performance. You provide technology-specific deep technical expertise. You deliver ad-hoc trainings / workshops according to the customer’s needs. You ensure the solution is built & run according to leading practices and provide the technical knowledge to remediate issues.

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**Responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:

- Developers
- Administrators
- Security engineers
- Data engineers

You will:

- Create and Update deep technical understanding and documentation of the customer’s technology and solution (KnowMe) and Workload record(s) for their assigned solutions.
- Deliver Onboarding Assessments and define and drive Delivery Plan
- Regular internal touchpoints with Team Manager, CSAM (Customer Success Account Manager), Mission Critical CSAs and connected teams like Azure Engineering Direct (AED), Azure Rapid Response (ARR) & others to ensure alignments
- Ensure successful delivery of remediation activities
- Identify trends, analyze and coordinate delivery opportunities
- Provide case trend analysis and recommend remediation activities during regular customer reviews
- Function as a Trusted Advisor
- Be part of 24/7 on-call team rotation
- Scoping of engagements, discussing workstreams and assigning actions and agreeing ETAs.
- Provide RCA in coordination with AED (Azure Engineering Direct) for critical incidents (Sev A/0)
- Provide advisory support with deep technical focused analysis and KnowMe.
- Responsibility for driving towards a stable and robust solution and minimiz reactive demand and time to recovery.
- Deliver relevant/accredited proactive services
- You will share and gain knowledge through technical communities.

**Qualifications**:
Subject matter expertise (certifications +3 years work experience) in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:

- Compute
- Network
- Storage
- Monitoring
- Security
- Azure administration
- Azure development
- DevOps processes
- Identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
- Data storage solutions
- Business continuity solutions
- Infrastructure solutions
- Language skills: English and German - fluid
- Location: Germany