Senior Security Technology Specialist (Public Sector)

Why Microsoft

Security has never been more top of mind for governments and businesses, and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping nations and citizens secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. 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.  Following a year of incredible success, we are excited to be expanding our team with ambitious, diversified, and driven new talent, eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime.  We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn.

The purpose of the role

In the Security Specialists team, we are looking for an experienced and credible Technical specialist leader. Someone with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end security thought leadership, driving significant customer value, and enabling transformational customer outcomes. 

Technical Specialist works very closely with Microsoft Engineering, Global Black Belt Teams & our Customers and Partners. Their role is provide thought leadership, and help our customers build their protect, detect and response strategies for Cyber Secuirty.  As a Senior subject matter expert you will build secure digital transformation strategies with customers, collaborating with different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable them to be more secure.  You will lead consultative customer conversations and collaborate on the planning, orchestration, and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners. 

Responsibilities

The impact you’ll be making: 

You will join a great team of like-minded individuals who like to get the job done but enjoy having fun along the way. You will work within a virtual team across Microsoft to educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision in your accounts.   Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based security solutions, architectures, programs, and technologies.  

Key Responsibilities​ 

• Customer Engagements: As a Senior subject Matter expert leads end-to-end Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies conversations with Customers. 
• Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security. 
• Scale Through Partners: Engages extensively via Microsoft partners to support them in key scenarios and supports partner technical capacity.​ 
• Build Strategy: Contributes to Microsoft Security strategy development, Showcases Microsoft Security Platform capabilities to Senior stakeholders. 
• Solution Design & Proof: Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations, presents, and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security. 
• Coaches team in addressing customer digital transformation and leveraging insights to align new or changing technology to customer security needs.​ 
• Education: Builds their own readiness plan and grows extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security space domain knowledge and practices expertise. Acts as a mentor for Microsoft Security, its integration with other Microsoft products & services, and Microsoft Security solutions generally; and increases internal virtual teams' understanding of extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security space solutions and new opportunities.

Qualifications

There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one:  

Required Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

• Certification in any one of the following: CEH, LPT, CISSP, CCSP, or CCIA 
• Certification in (or started) Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security Engineer Associate. 

You will have the following attributes and want to expand on them: 

• Growth Mindset. Experience and passion for learning (technical and soft skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from that; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit. 
• Practitioner mindset. Committed to knowing not just what solutions can do but practices the skills required to properly implement solutions required. 
• Insatiable Learner. Desire to know more than the standard and stretch to know more than Microsoft products. 
• Challenger mindset. Ability to work across departments and teams, ability to think “outside of the box” and challenge customers to think differently 
• Technical depth. Domain authority, having enterprise customer experience with design, configuration and implementation of Microsoft or other security & compliance solutions as well as competitive product knowledge  
• Excellent people negotiation, organisational, presentation, technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills. 
• Highly driven passionate person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, 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.  

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. 

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.