🏆 Solutions Engineer (Microsoft Stack) | Auckland, New Zealand | Hybrid
Pax8 is hiring a Solutions Engineer (Microsoft Stack) in Auckland, New Zealand , to help managed service providers turn Microsoft cloud technology into secure, scalable solutions that deliver real business value.
🚀 Build cloud solutions that make an impact
This is a chance to sit at the intersection of technology, commercial thinking and partner success. You’ll work alongside our sales teams, use your technical expertise to bring cloud solutions to life and help partners confidently navigate everything from productivity and security to infrastructure and business continuity.
As Pax8 continues its AI journey, you’ll have the opportunity to grow alongside rapidly evolving technology, experimenting with new tools, expanding your Microsoft expertise and helping our partners understand what’s possible next.
🌏 Technology with people at its heart
Pax8 is building the technology marketplace of the future, connecting partners, vendors and small to midsized businesses through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support. We support a global ecosystem of more than 39,000 managed service providers and are continually evolving how partners discover, buy and manage cloud technology.
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🧩 What you’ll get stuck into
Bring technology to life: Deliver engaging technical demonstrations that connect Microsoft and wider cloud capabilities with the real challenges our partners are trying to solve.
Shape the solution: Guide partners through initial configuration and solution architecture, helping them make confident technical choices for different customer environments.
Turn ideas into reality: Support proof-of-concept deployments, technical discovery and responses to requests for information.
Become a trusted technical voice: Partner closely with Channel Account Managers and wider sales teams, adding technical depth to commercial conversations.
Create enablement that scales: Build useful product guides, demonstrations and video content that make complex technology easier to understand and adopt.
Solve the unexpected: Get hands-on when deployments become challenging, bringing curiosity and structured troubleshooting to unfamiliar environments.
Keep learning: Stay close to changes across the Microsoft ecosystem and the wider Pax8 marketplace, sharing what you learn with partners and colleagues.
⭐ The difference you’ll make
Your expertise will help managed service providers turn technical possibilities into practical solutions. By connecting commercial conversations with credible technical guidance, you’ll help partners adopt technology with confidence, strengthen customer outcomes and give our sales teams the technical backing they need to succeed.
💡 You could be a great fit if you
Bring reasonable hands-on experience in technical consulting, cloud technology, solutions engineering or technical pre-sales.
Hold a relevant certification such as Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900), Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140), Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900), Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900), Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900), or CompTIA Security+ . – at least one.
Can turn technical detail into clear, useful conversations for audiences with different levels of technical knowledge.
Enjoy combining technology with human interaction and partner-facing problem solving.
Feel comfortable diagnosing deployments and environments you may not have seen before.
Are curious about new platforms and motivated by continuous learning.
Bring a collaborative, service-minded approach and can confidently communicate across virtual, written and live environments.
Have a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical…