Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – AI Applications

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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

With Microsoft’s recent investment in establishing a Cloud Region in Greece and adding the country to the world’s largest cloud infrastructure footprint, we are seeing accelerated momentum in digital transformation and adoption of advanced hybrid cloud technologies by Public Sector and Commercial Enterprises in the region. As such, we are seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented, technical pre-sales professional, with proven technical expertise in Application Modernization and Cloud Application Development to join our Enterprise Azure sales organization in Greece, Malta and Cyprus.

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of AI & applications, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer in AI Applications for commercial customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

Microsoft is transforming the developer experience for AI applications across the development lifecycle. With AI Foundry and seamless integration with Azure AI, we’re leading the way in Agentic AI development where AI agents streamline development and operations. As an AI Apps Solution Engineer, you’ll help customers boost productivity and become AI-native.

As an AI Applications Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprise AI developers unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s AI-powered stack across every stage of the development lifecycle. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate AI Foundry, Azure AI, and Responsible AI, through hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications development into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their applications and realize the full value of Microsoft’s AI platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.

As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their applications leveraging AI and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.

Required Qualifications:

• Solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR equivalent experience

• Expert on full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET)
• Expertise in PaaS services architecture, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Redhat Openshift (ARO), Azure Container Apps (ACA), Functions, Redis, App Service, Azure Spring Apps, Copilot, GitHub, Azure DevOps, GHAS for AzDO, Load testing, Chaos, Playwright, Dev Box, LabServices, Azure AI Services.
• Proven success and work experience as a Technical Sales Specialist, Cloud Architect or Field Engineer in global software & cloud services company AND proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background working with Government & FSI clients in the region is a plus.
• Expert for AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.)
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Architecture).

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.

• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.

• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions

• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.

• Maintain deep expertise in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET).

• Maintain and grow expertise in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).

• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums