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Microsoft UK • London, United Kingdom

Cloud Solution Architect Internship Opportunities

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Hours flexibility

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Job Description

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Cloud Solution Architect Intern, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation and maintenance of company products. Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and preparing detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer applications/solutions.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

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

Start date: July 2025

  • Applies foundational technical knowledge of an architecture solution to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints.
  • Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, blockers, and insights that relate to the customer/partner with internal team.
  • Solicits input from others to contribute to proposals for viable solutions based on specific technical products. Demonstrates basic technical concepts and proves those design solutions capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
  • Participates in discussions around architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer/partner usage, consumption, and value outcomes. Leverages development opportunities (e.g., mentorships, role-based resources, trainings, internal events such as Ready, Build, Ignite) to learn new technologies or services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field
  • Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion for technology and customer obsessed
  • Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers. Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentationskills
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g. Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
  • Change Management Certification (e.g. Prosci)

You must be legally authorised to work in the UK to be eligible for this role.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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20 days annual leave + bank holidays
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We asked employees of Microsoft UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
81%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

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