Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Senior Cloud Solution Architect | Microsoft Careers Skip to main content Microsoft Careers Careers Careers Search Search jobs Sign in Single PositionView All JobsSenior Cloud Solution ArchitectUnited States, California, Mountain View +2 moreApply nowAdd to cartFind out how well you match with this jobUpload your resumeJob descriptionCompany and benefitsJob number200043340Date postedJul 14, 2026Work site3 days / week in-officeTravelLess than 25%ProfessionHardware EngineeringDisciplineSilicon EngineeringRole typeIndividual ContributorEmployment typeFull-TimeOverviewMicrosoft Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.We are looking for an experienced cloud technology professional to join the Silicon Cloud Team, providing subject matter expertise on cloud architecture, solutions and security. The Senior Cloud Solution Architect will design and implement advanced and secure cloud solutions, impacting hybrid cloud systems around the globe, while collaborating with a dedicated group of cloud experts embedded within the Microsoft Silicon engineering organization. This role will also be responsible for embedding security best practices into architecture designs, ensuring compliance with corporate security standards, driving secure-by-design principles, and mitigating risks across cloud platforms.#azurehwjobs   #schie   #msftsiliconResponsibilitiesDesign Azure cloud and hybrid architectures for the organization: scalable, secure, resilient, cost-efficient solutions across core Azure domains, translating business and technical requirements into concrete, buildable designs.Build security into your architectures, using threat modeling to identify risks and mitigations up front, applying secure design patterns, identity and access controls, data protection, and validating designs with Azure-native tooling (Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Security Center).Establish and document cloud architecture and security standards, reference architectures, and secure design patterns, turning your design work into authoritative guidance that ensure consistency while optimizing for performance, security, and cost.Drive adoption of standards and guardrails through influence, setting the patterns and enablement that make the secure, well-architected choice the default across engineering teams, and enforcing them through policy-as-code with Azure Policy.Serve as the authoritative advisor on cloud architecture and security: conduct design reviews, resolve risk and trade-off decisions, and guide teams on secure patterns without slowing delivery.Apply AI to accelerate the work, using AI assisted tooling across architecture design, threat modeling, review, and helping raise the bar for how the team adopts AI.Drive cross-functional collaboration with partner teams across the company on reviews, dependencies, and shared initiatives.QualificationsRequired QualificationsMinimum QualificationsDoctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical...