Cloud Engineer

Global Black Belt SE - Sovereign Cloud

Overview

You operate at the intersection of national sovereignty, regulation, and cloud transformation. As part of the CSA Global Black Belt team, you work with Microsoft’s most strategic customers—governments, regulated enterprises, and critical national infrastructure providers—who require sovereign, trusted, and compliant cloud architectures. You partner across Microsoft to shape sovereign cloud strategy, influence long‑term customer direction, and enable cloud adoption where trust, control, and compliance are non‑negotiable. 

As a Global Black Belt Sovereign Cloud Solution Engineer, you are a senior technical leader responsible for securing the technical decision for sovereign cloud adoption across Asia. You engage deeply with customers operating under strict regulatory, data residency, and national security constraints, helping them design and adopt cloud architectures that preserve sovereignty while enabling modernization, AI, and innovation.

This role accelerates your growth as a trusted advisor at the CXO, regulator, and national stakeholder level, builds deep expertise across sovereign cloud patterns and controls, and positions you at the forefront of one of Microsoft’s most strategic cloud motions. Flexible work options are available depending on role and location.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Sovereign Cloud Technical Leadership

Own the technical strategy and decision for sovereign cloud solutions, including Azure public, hybrid, sovereign landing zones, confidential computing, and regulated industry architectures.

• Executive & Government Advisory

Advise senior customer stakeholders (CIO, CISO, CTO, Chief Digital Officer, regulators, and policy stakeholders) on cloud sovereignty, compliance, data residency, and risk mitigation aligned to national and industry regulations.

• Complex Deal & Policy‑Driven Engagements

Engage in highly complex, multi‑stakeholder deals where regulatory, legal, and geopolitical considerations shape cloud adoption decisions.

• Remove Sovereign & Regulatory Roadblocks

Identify and resolve technical, regulatory, and trust‑related blockers by orchestrating Microsoft product teams, legal, compliance, security, and partner ecosystems.

• Compete & Win in Regulated Markets

Act as the deep technical compete expert against hyperscaler and local sovereign cloud alternatives by clearly articulating Microsoft’s sovereign cloud differentiation, controls, and compliance posture.

• Incubation to Scale

Develop and share repeatable sovereign cloud IP—reference architectures, landing zones, compliance patterns, and solution accelerators—scalable across Asia.

• Engineering & Policy Feedback Loop

Provide structured customer, regulator, and partner feedback to influence Microsoft product roadmap, sovereign cloud capabilities, and go‑to‑market strategy.

• Thought Leadership & Enablement

Represent Microsoft as a sovereign cloud thought leader through executive briefings, regional forums, internal readiness, and technical enablement across the field.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory – do not edit)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 3+ years of technology‑related sales or account management experience;

OR 5+ years of technology‑related sales or account management experience

5–7 years of experience leading complex cloud engagements with enterprise or public‑sector customers

 

• Sovereign & Regulated Cloud Expertise

Experience designing or advising on cloud solutions for governments or regulated industries (e.g., public sector, financial services, defense, critical infrastructure), including data residency, compliance, and national sovereignty requirements.

• Executive & Policy Engagement

Proven ability to engage senior executives and non‑technical stakeholders by translating regulatory and policy requirements into secure, scalable cloud architectures.

• Security, Compliance & Trust Architecture

Strong understanding of cloud security, identity, encryption, confidential computing, compliance controls, and shared responsibility models in regulated environments.

• Hybrid & Multicloud Context

Experience with hybrid cloud, edge, or multi‑cloud strategies where sovereignty, latency, or regulatory constraints require non‑standard architectures.

• Competitive & Geopolitical Awareness

Awareness of hyperscaler, local sovereign cloud providers, and geopolitical considerations impacting cloud adoption decisions in Asia.

• Partner & Ecosystem Orchestration

Ability to leverage systems integrators, ISVs, and government‑aligned partners to deliver sovereign cloud solutions end‑to‑end.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Experience Level

Mid Level