Principal FastTrack Engineer Are you excited about working directly with Microsoft customers and partners to ensure success as they move forward with cloud computing? Do you want to be part of an engineering team that is looking to get a new service off the ground? If so, keep reading! We are the Azure Customer Engineering (CXP) team- a fast growing Engineering team of customer obsessed and passionate individuals that drive positive customer outcomes and experiences. FastTrack (FT) for Azure is our newest initiative; a customer success service to help customers confidently onboard to Azure and getting them on the right track to: build it right, architect it right, the first time. FT takes a solution-centric approach and provides customers with Engineering resources, best practices, tools and resources that drive Azure usage. We are looking for an experienced Principal FT Engineer who is ready to engage with strategic customers as they start their Azure journey toward POC, Dev, and Production
Areas of responsibility include: – Leading a high performing team. – Helping customers migrate and/or build workloads throughout their Azure journey toward production and expanding their cloud footprint (competing technologies okay). – Directly engage with customers to validate new solutions and POC's; update modules per learnings and feedback. – Be a thought leader and share knowledge with others through management best practices, solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions and create training. – Act as the subject matter expert across one or more core
Successful Candidate Competencies: – Azure solutions development and deployment experience (competing technologies okay). – Familiarity with cloud deployment and development tools (ie. PowerShell, Visual Studio, .NET, Python) – Familiarity with cloud networking concepts, connectivity (geo-redundancy, CDN, VPN) and tools – Customer and Partner Focus: proven experience driving business impact based on a deep understanding of customer and partner needs. – Strong communication skills to effectively drive recommendations and land priorities across customers, partners, senior executives and across organizational