Sr Cloud Solution Architecture - Identity

Join Microsoft’s US Public Sector Industries DIB Team—where mission meets innovation. The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Operating Unit (OU) is a team with a bold mission: to consolidate, simplify, and accelerate Microsoft’s presence across the DIB landscape. This expansive network includes over 100,000 organizations specializing in manufacturing, aviation, cybersecurity, and more—all united in their support of all Federal Agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense and other mission-based intelligence and civilian organizations. Our team is dedicated to empowering these commercial contractors throughout their digital transformation journey—from envisioning new possibilities to delivering secure, scalable solutions that drive mission outcomes, elevate customer experience, and fuel Microsoft’s growth. The DIB OU will directly manage and accelerate strategic and major DIB accounts across MCAPS Americas, while also enabling growth across other OUs and SME&C. We’re building new relationships, transforming legacy operations, and helping our customers modernize with confidence. We are currently looking for Cloud Solution Architect – AI & Security to join our team.   As a Cloud Solution Architect , you will empower customers to achieve their goals through their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your expertise, you'll guide technical discussions to help customers unlock the full potential of their Microsoft solutions, including identifying resolutions to issues blocking customer success projects. This role offers a dynamic opportunity to advance your career, refine your technical and collaboration skills, and deepen your cloud expertise.   The person for this role needs to be willing and able to get a US government security clearance.   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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Accelerate security transformation across Microsoft's strategic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) customers by designing and implementing Zero Trust architectures, modern identity solutions, and integrated security platforms that strengthen cyber resilience, reduce risk, and support mission outcomes. Drive adoption of Microsoft Security solutions including Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM), helping customers modernize security operations and advance from reactive defense to proactive threat protection. Partner on complex modernization initiatives, classified and high-side environments, cloud migrations, and digital transformation programs by providing security architecture leadership, guiding customers through the integration of identity, access management, application security, and cloud-native protection capabilities. Engage stakeholders across engineering, sales, customer success, and delivery organizations to align on security priorities, facilitate executive and technical design workshops, and establish trusted advisor relationships that influence long-term cybersecurity strategy and platform adoption. Enable customers to operationalize Zero Trust principles through identity lifecycle management, Conditional Access, multifactor authentication, privileged access controls, governance, compliance, and secure access strategies that protect users, devices, applications, and data. Support secure AI adoption by helping customers design governance frameworks, secure copilots and agents,