Cloud Solution Architect - Identity

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products, services, and partnerships. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more. 

As part of our Global Delivery Team, you will use your engineering and architect skills to help our customers succeed with our wide range of security solutions and services. Join a thriving and growing team that provides world class engineering and professional services to our customers, helping them to modernise, transform and strengthen their security architecture. 

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), specializing in Security and Identity who is passionate about driving our customers’ security transformation across their on-premises estate as well as on the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Platforms. This is a customer-facing role, owning the technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, implementation, and operational health engagements.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.  

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. 

Responsibilities

• Customer Centricity: 
  • Customer Satisfaction - Drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor. 
  • Customer/Partner Insights - Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners. 
  • Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap. 
  • Land an end-to-end value prop for Security (i.e., Zero Trust) which spans the breadth of Microsoft Security offerings, and with focus on Threat Protection, ID + Identity and Access Management and Cloud Security. 
• Business Impact: 
  • Position and deliver solutions that drive Security product usage and develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.  
  • Identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable IP.   
  • Accelerate Business Value of overall Security adoption by improving security posture and ensuring that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” framework, such as high-performance levels, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment. 
• Technical Leadership : 
  • Learn It All – Align individual skilling to team/area demands & Customer Success goals .  
  • Accelerate customer outcomes - Share expertise, contribute to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes.  
  • Run Architectural Design Session to build a plan for implementing the solution – governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment.  Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production. 
  • Collaborate and orchestrate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders including FastTrack, partner, and Microsoft Consulting in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions with the Microsoft Security platform. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Fluency in French and English 
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in architecture design, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in identity.  
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field recent relevant in cyber security, cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting  
  • OR equivalent experience. 
    

Preferred Qualifications:

• Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following security solutions: 
  • Comprehensive knowledge and skills across Microsoft Entra in terms of Identity and Access Management solutions, including Entra ID on premises / hybrid solutions 
  • Threat protection, SIEM and Incident Response; Extended Detection and Response (XDR); Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR); Security Operation Center Management; Identity and Access Management; Cloud Infrastructure; Cloud Security; Data Security; Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft 365 Security Administrator, Microsoft Security Operations, Cloud Security, CCSP, CEH, OSCP, GSEC. 
• MS Certs SC200, SC300 (Identity), AZ500  
• Technical preferences in one or more of the following categories: 
  • Cloud security: technical aptitude or experience to design, architect, and implement Azure Security solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel that meet business, IT, Regulatory needs – infusing Azure Security technologies where appropriate. Ideal candidates should also have skills in cloud infrastructure security architecture and secure implementation of Azure solutions. 
• Enterprise-scale technical experience and experience to learn new cloud security technologies and understand relevant cloud security market trends.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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