What are the career & job prospects in India for Microsoft Azure?

Cloud is the way to go, and there are several opportunities in India as well. Speaking of Microsoft Azure, it has seen YoY increase in market share, earning the trust of businesses. Consider the previous statement as less of a sales statement, but a reality I have seen myself. Depending on what someone's skills are in Microsoft Azure, there are opportunities in Hybrid, Identity, Security, Automation, Storage, Containers, and the likes - hot topics today. Technical Roles like Support Engineers, Field Engineers, Consultants, and Architects. Semi/Non-technical roles like Solution Specialist, Sales Specialist, Account Executive, Delivery Manager, Pursuit Lead. Outside Microsoft India, a lot of partners and consulting companies (any top India origin MNCs that you can think of) too offer several positions for Microsoft Azure skills. I get couple of emails with such opportunities every week from Accenture, Wipro, HCL, Infosys as I am subscribed to them.

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Earning Microsoft Azure certifications is the key marker for competitive advantage. It has the most welcoming job opportunities in India and elsewhere across the globe. A few reasons that could be jotted here are: - Business Agility - Global Reach - Quick development - Adaptive features - Disaster recovery - Secure expenditure - Deployment anywhere - Flexible model - Unified delivery plan and more. The exams to be passed to earn the Microsoft Azure Certifications includes the following.- Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions - Exam 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - Exam 70-537: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack The top employers hiring Azure experts include Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Limited, HCL Technologies, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft India, Accenture Technologies, and, etc. The median salary provided by these firms ranges from 6 Lacs to 14 lacs per annum. Microsoft's Azure has a strong foothold in the cloud computing niche. Evidently, the tech companies are positioning themselves this year to extend the cloud computing divisions. Correspondingly, it is recommended to stay ahead of the curve by earning Azure certifications.

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Microsoft Azure is an open cloud computing platform started by Microsoft Inc. Most of the candidates looking to start a career with Microsoft Azure start off as a solutions architect or an IT architect. It is an integrated cloud service which the developers use to build and manage applications through the global network. In the present scenario where Cloud providers are evolving, Microsoft Azure has secured a place and growing steadily as a competitor for the top cloud providers. Microsoft Azure also offers security controls, networking, analytics and more. A major advantage with Microsoft Azure is that it supports third-party software as well. With regularly upgrading your knowledge and certifications, you can grow to the highest level in your respective organization. In India, the average salary for Solutions Architect is around 20,00,000 INR per year according to Pay Scale - Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages. It is reported that Accenture pays the highest salary in India for its Solution Architects.

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Microsoft Azure has secured a place and growing steadily as a competitor for the top cloud providers. Microsoft Azure provides a wide range of services from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Cloud Managing services. Top analysts report that Microsoft Azure is a growing fish in a growing pond of Cloud computing. The cloud market is very competitive and ever growing. Microsoft Azure competes with the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Along with IaaS and PaaS, Microsoft Azure also offers security controls, networking, analytics and more. A major advantage with Microsoft Azure is that it supports third party software as well. Microsoft is investing in India in projects like Aadhaar, Skype Lite and Project Sangam. Microsoft aims to bring Aadhaar integration into Skype Lite by June 2017. The second platform, Project Sangam, aims to connect the skills learning programme directly with relevant jobs by leveraging LinkedIns job-search platform. Project Sangam will allow users to register with their Aadhaar identity to ensure lifelong access to the platform. To maintain and support Microsoft Azure companies do need developers, analysts, software engineers, database administrators, hence the job opportunities are immense. A good hand on Microsoft Azure will help professionals to get work on projects of big players of India like Reliance, TATA's and Mahindra's.

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In the recent past, the entire concept of computing has seen a paradigm shift towards cloud computing. This internet-based computing model provides data and shared computer processing to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing facilitates universal access to a shared pool of computing resources, enabling information to be transferred effortlessly and with minimal effort. With cloud computing, users and enterprises can now store and process data in third-party data storage centers. Most of the candidates looking to start a career with Microsoft Azure start off as a Solutions Architect or an IT Architect. Once they are comfortable in this profile, they are bound to perform well. Based on their performance, they move on to become Technical Architects or Senior Software Architects or Solution Architects. With regularly upgrading your knowledge and certifications, you can grow to the highest level in your respective organization. With India’s rapidly expanding the economy, we see an incredible opportunity to help customers of all sizes and industries take advantage of the cloud. Today, customers across the public sector, financial services, healthcare, and rapidly growing startups, are all choosing Azure to help go faster, achieve more, and grow their businesses. Some top companies using Azure services - 1. Reliance General Insurance bringing health benefits to millions of underprivileged people across the country 2. Sri Chaitanya Schools delivering superior quality personalized education 3. Fortis Healthcare creating value for healthcare organizations and patients Pay scale - Salary for certified professionals in cloud computing is 9-10 LPA. The salary of a Cloud professional is likely to be something like 7-8 LPA.

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Cloud computing is the latest technology in data storage to take the world by storm. In many companies, it is already being used with great success. Microsoft Azure is more than mere cloud servicing with Windows. It has been created so as to work easily with several Linux distributions, just as well as with other server Operating Systems. Microsoft Azure is a major platform serving the cloud computing market today. A certified professional can work as a: 1)Senior software engineer 2)Technical support engineer 3)web application engineer 4)Network architects 5). NET developer 6)Technical architect 7)Cloud solutions architect 8)Senior BI analytics architect They can get jobs easily in the company is that work with big data analytics and cloud computing. Some of the top recruiters are Microsoft, Cognizant, Capgemini, Deloitte, Hitachi, Verizon, Cisco, IBM, etc.

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