Cloud Solution Architect Internship

Overview

This internship is intended for university students from related majors who will graduate between September 2026 and August 2027. The internship period is 12 weeks in the summer of 2026 (June to August).

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 Internship, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation, and maintenance of company products. You will assist the sales staff in assessing the potential application of company products to meet customer needs and prepare 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

• 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/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.
• Students graduating between September 2026 and August 2027.
• Internship Period: 12 weeks in summer of 2026 (June to August).

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 presentation skills.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci).

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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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.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Technical Sales
• Product Demonstrations
• Customer Solutions
• Azure
• IT Requirements Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving
• System Design