Digital Solution Engineer - Azure Platform, French Speaking

Azure is a $100B business growing at more than 40% year over year at Microsoft — and application modernization is one of the largest driver of that growth. Customers are no longer asking whether to move to the cloud; they are asking which Azure destination is right for each application, and how fast they can get there. That decision is where you come in. Are you curious, passionate about infrastructure and applications, and ready to solve complex modernization challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Digital Solution Engineer – Azure Platform, supporting mid-market customers across the Azure application and data platform. In this technical sales role, you will help customers move beyond lift-and-shift and re-platform their application estate onto the best-fit Azure destination — Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, or Azure Kubernetes Service — backed by the right data platform, whether that is Azure SQL or an open-source engine such as PostgreSQL or MySQL. You will translate architectural choices into business outcomes: lower run cost, faster release cadence, stronger security posture, and an application estate that is ready for AI. About SME&C At Small, Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team — one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization — it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. The Core of the Role: Driving Application Modernization The defining capability of this role is your ability to take a customer’s existing application portfolio and drive it to the most appropriate Azure destination — on both the application and the data tier. This is a judgment-led discipline, not a template. You are expected to assess each workload on its operational model, scale profile, cost envelope, compliance constraints, and the customer’s developer velocity, then recommend and defend the right landing zone. Application platform destinations You are fluent across the full Azure application platform and can articulate — with credibility, in front of architects — when to choose each: Azure App Service — for web apps and APIs that benefit from a fully managed PaaS runtime with minimal operational overhead; the fastest path off Windows/IIS and Java/Tomcat estates. Azure Container Apps — for containerized microservices, event-driven workloads, and scale-to-zero scenarios where teams want containers without owning a cluster. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — for complex, large-scale, or portability-driven estates that require full orchestration control, custom networking, and platform-engineering maturity. Azure Functions, Azure Arc, and Azure VMs — as complementary destinations for event-driven code, hybrid and edge estates, and workloads that are expected to remain IaaS in the near term. Critically, you can explain the trade-offs between these destinations rather than defaulting to one — including the cost, operational, and skills implications of each choice, and the containerization and refactoring path required to get there. Data platform destinations Modernizing the application without modernizing the data tier leaves most of the value on the table. You bring equal depth across the Azure database