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- Certified Azure Solutions Architect - move to Microsoft I've got 22 yoe in software engineering with Microsoft technologies. Been working within Azure for 7 years and 100% remote consulting for 5+ years as a certified Azure Solutions Architect. Currently working for the past 2 years in 100% Azure architecture role (with no coding unless you count Logic A
- IBM: considering offer.... I never would have thought that I would be considering an offer from IBM.....doing hybrid cloud architecture work using Azure and Open shift. Words of wisdom?
- Looking for Microsoft Referral Hi there. I’m looking for MSFT referral for a Azure solution architecture role. Currently in a similar role at AWS #referral #microsoft
- EY GDS INDIA SM SALARY FOR CLOUD How much to expect as SM for cloud role in DET , ey gds india ? YOE : 15 Tech stack : Azure, terraform , architecture design , devops , AKS , C# Is 50 lakh fixed a good number ?
- Data Engineer/BI Role - Help with Referrals Looking for Data Engineering/BI roles. I appreciate any referrals or leads. YOE: 16 TC: 200k Skills: Tableau, SQL, Python, Snowflake Certifications: AWS CSA, Azure, Snowflake Open for either 1. Solutions Architecture 2. BI/Data Engineering type of roles. #businessintelligence #datascience #d
- Remote jobs with minimal overnight travel My current role is pretty unstable and I'm looking to transition somewhere with some more potential. What are some potentials for remote sales/technical Pre-sales roles or even architecture roles? I have spent a lot of time in the Microsoft O365 and Azure ecosystems but everyone seems to consider me
- Serverless approach for building system for side projects So I am looking for cloud housing (PAAS) like Azure, AWS or Firebase, but most of them offer cheaper price for using serverless architecture like Azure Functions, Lambda or Firebase functions. Would that hurt my showcase to people due to lacking servers on backend or they don't care. Also any guide
- Why is AWS most popular when GCP and Azure are so much better? Always wondered this. If I’m working on getting an architecture implemented, I can either spend 2 days fighting with AWS or get it done right in under an hour on GCP or Azure.
- Microsoft UK Level 63 Expecting a formal offer from Microsoft UK. Recruiter called today to say the level will be 63 with a base of approx GBP100k + 20% bonus + Car allowance + 17,000 USD stock. Total YoE is 14 years. Role is Solution architecture IC5 (Iam guessing it is a MCS terminology? I interviewed for Solution arch
- Referrals needed for senior security roles (remote) Hi, I'm looking for referrals for Principal/sr. staff/Sr. Security Partner/Architect roles YOE: 20+ years IT Experience, 10+ development and 10 InfoSec Architecture (AppSec/Cloud) Certificates: CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security, CCSK etc. Please DM me if need more info for referrals.
- I want 100% travel. What roles at consulting and big tech companies are for me? I’m looking to travel every week, preferably a different city every week. What roles at your company/Microsoft/Amazon/Deloitte/Accenture/etc would fit this desire? Work experience is 2.5 years of cloud dev, architecture, and DevOps. Lots of experience with AWS, less so with Azure. Certs for both.
- Solutions Architect, PreSales roles I have 10+ years of cloud/on-Prem systems architecture and engineering experience. I have a solid resume with pretty good employers in the valley. Looking to transition towards presales roles. Anyone here from GCP, Azure or Salesforce Solutions and Presales teams ? Referrals would be greatly appre
- Moving teams at Microsoft How easy is it to move from one azure team to another azure team in Microsoft. From all my conversations with the team and manager it feels like the team is not doing anything interesting. The product they are building is very mediocre. Thinking of accepting the job and then applying in a differen
- OCI vs AWS vs AZURE (Learning perspective)... I have simple question. If you have experience with OCI architecture and infrastructure, will you be able to work or support AWS and AZURE?. Let's flip the coin as well. How about if somebody knows AWS, will he/she be able to work on OCI?. I am asking because i want to know how marketable somebody w
- Solution Architect vs SDE Career Growth Path Hi All, Thoughts on the Solution Architect (SA)vs SDE career growth paths and experiences. Which domain is good long term based on opportunities, pay, Benifits, skills, etc. (The SA can be the roles of Solution Architects, Technical Sales Engineers, Customer Engineers, CSA and all here) More speci
- Best teams to join in Azure? (SDE 2) Hi all, I have 2.5 yoe at Amazon + 2.5 yoe at AWS specifically and most recently. AWS experience is on a service that serves inference results. Lots of microservice architecture experience (although not much exp on containers). What are the best teams to join in Azure? Any recommendations?
- AWS L6 ( SA role) to GCP L6 CE or level 65 in MSFT Hi What is your input on moving from AWS at L6 after 4 years on solution architecture TC 180£. Got a offer from GCP at L6. 195£, customer engineering, and MSFT at level 65 on Azure, 210£, All outside US. Seems to me MSFT has lost the edge in terms of recruiting and future employers. What do you
- Joined Microsoft recently, nothing make sense Joined Microsoft recently. It’s been like two weeks and I’ve been doing the onboarding and training. I joined a few meetings where they’re going over azure stuff and some architecture with current systems and nothing makes sense to me. This is my second job and I was a high performer at my previous
- AWS vs Azure - How it compares I was at AWS as SDE2 and joined Azure as Senior (63). Here's a roughly how I feel, having worked at both places: Azure Pros: 1- WLB is much better - 40-45 hours is norm in my org. 2 - Culture is 100x better. Manager cares about employees. Family oriented. Despite all the hate/trolls in Blind on M
- recommended path options for high TC? Trying to figure out a good way to up my TC. Im not in SF or Seattle so maybe my options are limited (im in NC). any advice given my background? experience (chronological): 2 yrs developer (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs senior devops/sre (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs devops/sre manager (commer
- Microsoft performance Hi folks,I’ll be joining the Microsoft Azure Identity team in two weeks from today.I’d like to know how performance is measured and what determines promotion?how do you go from L62 to L63 and how long will it take to get to L65 at least.Also, how easy is it to switch department.I.e to go from Archit
- link Azure homework 📚 Knowing from experience that the hyperlink graph potentially becomes overwhelming every time one starts to tame it. I join in 6 weeks as L62 and thought 💭 that I might as well use some spare time to know about what I am getting myself into and not turn out to be a rookie 😅 What’d you guys recomm
- How is the growth as a service engineer/SRE? I graduated in 2020 with masters degree. I will be joining Microsoft soon as a service engineer in Azure CXP team. My day today work will be on azure services, cloud platform. Mostly on system, network engineering stuffs, Handling escalation from the support team, reviewing architecture/design, main
- Career Advice I have been a Azure Cloud engineer for 4 years in financial industry and I feel I need a field change (Solution Architect) where I don’t have to do hardcore development. I like IAAC level coding but not application level. I want advice from you guys as how intense the coding is in Faang companies?
- link Principal/Staff Preparation Strategy - II [AMA] Please refer to Part 1 before reading this: https://www.teamblind.com/post/PrincipalStaff-Offers-Evaluation-Prep-Strategy-GNcxoeOa [B.2] Track 2: System Design Interview Problems Must: ○ Grokking SDI: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview ○ SDI Channel: https://
- How can we make a scalable unthrottled architecture Does anyone has any links/docs/vids/books reference which i can follow to understand about "scaling" system or to build architecture that can handle very large scale of data. Lets say, what would be my stack if i want 3M hits per seconds Can store petabytes of data Can search and return results in
- Good teams to join in Microsoft Hi SDEs from Microsoft, I need suggestion on better teams to join in Microsoft with medium operational load and more development work with growth opportunities. I joined microsoft recently and have only been working on operational load. I am looking to change teams within microsoft as I haven't do
- Referrals Hello friends! I would very much appreciate referrals to any FAANGMULA, Startup Unicorns or to any product based companies. Open to remote. I'm based in Canada, would need H1B or TN visa sponsorship. Currently working as a Senior Cloud Architect. I also advise a YC startup on the side. (technical
- #Microsoft Offer I got a call from a microsoft recruiter that said my interview was a yes from all interviewers. This is for a Cloud Solution Architecture role based in MEA. I have 10+ years experience in software development and cloud which translates to this role. Recruiter acknowledged strong dev background, grea
- Best jobs for cloud solutions architects. Hi Blind community. I have been working 4 years as cloud solutions arch. Now i am working on a consultant company and helping fortune 500 companies for their cloud workloads. It is various types of projectsI have faced with in AWS and Azure like ( cloud security and compliance, big data migration, c
- Is it good to be versatile in technologies? I have around 4+ yoe as software engineer (working in India) and till now I have been working on multiple things like distributed computing, worked on monolith and microservice architecture, cloud services like Amazon, gcp and azure, Ruby on rails , java, etc. Currently I am getting 46 lpa and what
- Software Dev Manager at Amazon hey folks. im a Technical PM at Azure and have had decent trajectory. yoe -4 level 64. tc - 260k i have been approached for a dev mgr role at EC2. i was wondering what is expected of a dev manager at amazon? is it more of a tech lead role with focus on code reviews or is it more of architecture, s
- [India] Security Architect Market Worth and Referral Hi folks, What is the current market worth of a security architect (cloud and application security) with 9.7 years of experience in India? Skillset: Application and cloud security architecture, threat modelling, SSDLC, secure design reviews, SAST (code review), DAST/pentesting, DevSecOps, cloud na
- link SAP Hiring - Advisory/ Architect We are looking for a Senior SAP Core Technology SE to join us at SAP - someone who is well-rounded and experienced with SAP core technologies - Good knowledge in S4 (OnPremise and/or Cloud), Cloud platform, Integration, Extension, along with knowledge in either Security or Database management or Ana
- MSFT Virtual on-site interview Hi, In two weeks I will have my virtual interview in #CSE and I have a couple of questions: 1. I applied for a senior software engineer position but now I see the position changed to "all levels 59-63". Is this something usual, does it change the requirements? 2. How does the virtual interview codi
- Career direction/options/advice 12 YOE Started C#/internal services developer (4yr) Moved to Sr. DevOps / automation role (2yr) Moved to Lead Cloud/DevSecOps role (2yr) Moved to Cloud Infrastructure/Solutions Architect (4yr) Have diverse technical focus - mostly working with companies surrounding MS based stack and Azure (Expert)
- Canada opportunities for mid level SWE working on data IT opportunities in Canada for PR holder. current TC is $75-80K CAD from service tech company. YOE:9 Multi faceted role playing in these 9 years makes me jack of all but king of none. technical hands-on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, data governance,cloud based ELT solutioning with data lake and
- Scope for a TPM role Hi, I have been offered a TPM role in Google. I am currently a Solution Architect focussed on Azure. In my current role I am involved in defining high level solution architecture, working with various teams to get it delivered (I don't code that much but review the code and design, help team if the
- Salary for Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Pro Hey Everyone, I'm seriously considering officially applying for a Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Professional position. Informal discussions have already started. I could really use some advice to prepare myself to negotiate salary. Here's the job description • Strategic Sales
- Program Manager, 8YOE - how much should I be making? After seeing many of the posts here on Blind, it seems that I should be making a lot more than what I'm currently making. First time poster. Be gentle. Current job: "Senior Project Manager" at a "Microsoft Gold Partner" IT consultancy firm. I lead projects like cloud migrations, mergers/acquisition
- Career Help I have been a Azure Cloud engineer for a year now and was a DevOps Engineer in financial industry for around 3.5 years. I have only done shell scripting and IAAC deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, GIT and supported pipelines but never got involved in deep level backend stuff and honestly I don’t
- Microsoft Principal Program manager impending offer Seeking some guidance on what I should expect and best way to negotiate. The role is a principal PM role that is based on solutions architecture in the Azure organization. Based on research and the principal role I am expecting this is somewhere between L65-67, the hiring manager has similar job tit
- Workday Senior Software Development Engineer I am having 4 years of experience and I do have coding Interview with workday, what kind of questions I can expect from Interviewer? Is coding Interview is generic in workday or depends on project requirement? I am sharing job description below, so that you will have an on Idea for what position I
- How do you define career goals? A software developer with 7 yrs experience. 5 yrs in Azure with good background around service oriented architecture. I just went with the flow so far and didn't plan too much. Just ensured I wasn't bored of what I was working on. Off late, I am close to a principal promotion and I am wondering whe
- vote Switching from Microsoft I am aged 30, working as SDE2, L62 at Microsoft Azure, Redmond with 140k USD base pay for past 2 years. Total yoe is 9 years. Fundamentally I am a very mediocre person. - I have not worked on any open source projects. - I have worked only on C#/.net and not on Java. - I am reasonable good at crac
- Multiple Software Engineer (Contract) Openings-CHICAGO Hello! We are looking for Chicago based consultants for the following position. Experience levels range from a min of three years to max of around 12. Please DM with your contact information if interested. thank you. Primarily Java developer, REST, Spring boot for most of the roles / Python is a
- How to SWE from sales? I've always considered going to SWE from where I am now in tech sales. I'm pretty good at sales but there's a lot of stuff that you usually can't control. Sold cybersecurit and rpa Software. Did engineering college so I'm smart enough to be a SWE -- I taught myself python a few years ago and a litt
- vote VMWare or Microsoft I work for Kernel team at Intel. I am a low level system software engineer (not a CS grad but a EE grad i.e. both Masters and Bachelors). I recently started interviewing and got offers from VMware and Microsoft. I am unable to choose one from the both, so any help is highly appreciated. VMWare deta
- vote Senior Data Engineer at Startup w/ Equity or Awesome Contract Work First time posting here. I'm hoping to get some valuable / helpful thoughts to make a decision between two offers. Job 1 - Senior Software Engineer - Data. Full Time Salary at Startup with plenty of funding. Offering base plus equity. Culture seems good. Growing like crazy. Not yet profitable. Alre
- link Amazon recruiter contacted me, I sent my CV and he sent me the following NOTE: I am not looking for answers. I'm just interested in knowing if this has been a typical route to get hired as an SA. I have previously applied and had a couple of interviews, but no offer. I want to put my best foot forward. Also sharing for the benefit of others. ****************** Thank yo