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Schiphol, Netherlands

Junior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud + AI Infrastructure

No experience
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Microsoft

Software, cloud & services
86.9
Palpable Score
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Responsibilities

- Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints

- Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud

- Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform - Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer

- Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impact and proposes mitigations and contingencies

- Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues

- Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project

Qualifications

Need to have a technical background with some years of technology-related experience, along with a few years of Microsoft Azure (Experience on AWS or GCP will be an added advantage).  

Require in depth expertise in at least one of the following functional areas:    

- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL.  

- Strong understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.  

- Designing and implementing Azure Landing Zones.  

- Knowledge of one or more of the following: Azure PowerShell, CLI, Visual Studio, ARM, Bicep or Terraform.  

- Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Infra-as-Code (IaC).    

Additional experience:  

- Relevent years of working in a customer-facing role.  

- Experience in working as part of a delivery team.  

- Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences and strong presentation skills.  

- Demonstrated ability to match technical solutions with customer business requirements.  

- Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change.  

- Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with customers.  

- A passion for learning about and experimenting with new technologies.  

- Ability to build trust to drive change with customers.  

- Work with customers to identify business requirements.  

- Architect and implement innovative solutions using the most recent technologies.

- Continually learn and grow professionally.  

- Take a leadership role on projects.  - Mentor other Consultants to share your knowledge and experience.      

About the company

Microsoft

Company overview
Microsoft is a global technology company best known for Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure cloud services, and developer tools like GitHub and Visual Studio. Microsoft also builds consumer and enterprise products across gaming (Xbox), search and advertising, cybersecurity, and AI products such as Copilot. Microsoft sells mainly to enterprises, governments, developers, and consumers through a mix of subscriptions, cloud usage, and device and software licensing. Microsoft operates at massive global scale and runs large, repeatable hiring pipelines for both students and full-time roles.

Locations and presence

Microsoft has major offices and engineering hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, with a large global footprint across many cities listed on Microsoft Careers. Microsoft has been tightening hybrid expectations, including an update to three in-office days per week that starts rolling out from the Puget Sound area from late February 2026.

Palpable Score

86.9
/ 100
Microsoft offers some of the clearest and most repeatable early-career entry points in tech, spanning first-year internships, new-grad hiring, sales and customer-facing early-in-profession tracks, and apprenticeship-style routes. The hiring process is structured and widely documented, and learning support is visible across multiple programs, though team-to-team variation still matters once someone lands. Pay tends to be competitive with strong benefits, and outcomes look positive, but Microsoft does not publish consistent early-career retention and promotion metrics.
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