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Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from? Are you passionate about cybersecurity? Do you enjoy working on a high-performing, fast-paced sales team? Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of innovation at Microsoft? If so, we are looking for you! The Microsoft Security organization’s mission of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we must work to keep our customers safe through our Security Solutions. The Solution Specialist Unit team within the Microsoft Security organization is at the forefront of this effort, engaging directly with customers to contribute to their success. As the largest security company in the world, we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. As a Security Technical Specialist, you will be a senior technical sales leader and trusted customer advisor, working with cutting-edge security technologies such as Microsoft Defender for XDR and Sentinel. You will lead a v-team of other internal, partner and consulting resources to help map Microsoft solutions to customer security challenges and priorities, demonstrate and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision enabling the team to achieve/exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets. You will help solve complex security challenges for our customers, enabling them to help modernize their security architecture and posture. 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.
Job Responsibility
Primary technical point of contact for potential customers during the sales process, owning and driving technical win for security opportunities
Deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for cloud and Sentinel and expertise in extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security solutions and architectures
Remediate blockers
leads and ensures technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies
Engage with and reach out to customers proactively and independently
Build credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security
Search for and use Microsoft Security customer references
Facilitate handoff to customer success for post sales deployment
Develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client's security posture
Shape technical win plan and tailor Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities
Enhance team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security
Develop differentiated compete strategies for Microsoft Security for assigned customers
Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions
Explain, demonstrate, and architect the solution to help solve customer security challenges and priorities
Drive cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security
Leverage insights and coach teams to align new or changing technology to customer security needs
Engage with other teams within and outside the organization throughout the sales cycle
Engage partners in sell-with scenarios and support their technical capabilities
Requirements
5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience
8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)
7+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or related experience
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Services (PaaS), and Software as a service and understanding of one or more cloud security standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, CSA, etc.
Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills)
implementing practices from others
trying, failing, and learning from both successes and failures
sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit
Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security
One or more of Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, IAAP, etc. Is preferred
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
Next Gen Web Application Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways
Threat detection technologies
Log analysis and Incident Response
Cloud security technologies, architectures and concepts such as Zero Trust, cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, Cloud code security and Cloud infrastructure entitlement management
Nice to have
One or more of Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, IAAP, etc.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
Next Gen Web Application Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways
Threat detection technologies
Log analysis and Incident Response
Cloud security technologies, architectures and concepts such as Zero Trust, cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, Cloud code security and Cloud infrastructure entitlement management