Security Technical Specialist

Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you share and build on other’s ideas, because we are better together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more  through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of innovation at Microsoft? 
 
With over 8,500 global security experts, $4 billion invested annually in research and development, and the latest in AI and automation, our security is already working to help protect customers around the world and Microsoft is hiring for the Security Technical Specialists (TS) role.
 
The Security Technical Specialists main goal is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our cybersecurity technology.  You will work in a team, enabling customers through digital transformation by leveraging the Cybersecurity Reference Architecture . TSs are expected to be able to both own and win the customers technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and work they are on for sales people to further pursue. As a TS, you work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly Microsoft 365 and Azure sales/usage targets 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 technologies.

Responsibilities

You will be the lead technical subject matter expert for cybersecurity within your account teams.

• You will deliver proof of Microsoft’s technology solutions to customers and secure their agreement our solutions meet the success criteria for their security architecture.

You will help customers make technical decisions to build tomorrow’s business and IT solutions based on Microsoft technology.

• You will lead technical presentations,demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, andpilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers thecapabilities of Microsoft's products and services, and how we can make theirbusinesses more successful.
• You will lead to clear technical, competitiveand security blockers to accelerate Security sales and customer usage.
• You will own winning the technical decisionat customers for sales opportunities and usage scenarios, through tailoringyour message, bringing ideas to customers, engaging with them to show ourtechnology differentiation, and guiding them in decision making.
• You will work with partners and others at Microsoft, as well as use our core tools, to extend your reach and the reach ofyour team, focusing on satisfying important customer needs

You will be a vital connection and orchestration point for a variety of technical resources, by:

• Orchestrating complex solutions with internaland external partners for multiple Microsoft products and services.
• Helping identify and diagnose technical,architectural, and competitive blockers and respective solutions for sales opportunitiesand usage decision blockers and helping ensure that these solutions areimplemented.
• Sharing practical knowledge with partners todrive the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.
• Shaping current and future products, marketingstrategies, and customer centricity ideas through your feedback to sales,marketing, and engineering.

You will stay sharp, share your knowledge, and learn practices from others.

• We encourage all our employees tocontinuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills,and competitive readiness.
• Your knowledge will be enhanced and shared by participating in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broaderindustry through events, blogs, whitepapers, training, and articles for yourdomain.

 You will be recognized for sharing, learning, and driving individual work that all result in business impact for customers, partners and within Microsoft. Microsoft encourages thought leadership and leadership from every employee.

Qualifications

Technical Solution Leader  

• Security architect. Experience and ability to design key solutions and architectures for confidentiality, integrity and availability across multiple cybersecurity topics including endpoint detection and response, anti-malware, persistent threats, email security, user behavior and analytics, threat intelligence, cloud-based identity and access management solutions, threat hunting and forensics, security management required.
• Insatiable Learner. Desire to know more than the standard and stretch to know more than Microsoft products required.
• Practitioner mindset. Committed to knowing not just what solutions can do but practices the skills required to properly implement solutions required.
• Cloud Trust. Practical expertise in sophisticated identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance requirements, and experience integrating them into cloud and hybrid solutions required.
• Technical breadth. Extensive customer experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management; broad experience with Microsoft 365 Security and Azure Security required.
• Technical depth. Domain authority, having enterprise customer experience with design, configuration and implementation of Microsoft or other security solutions as well as competitive product knowledge (ex. Proofpoint, Crowdstrike, Arcsight, Cybereason, Splunk) required
• Planning for success. Drive deployment and adoption planning, using Microsoft FastTrack and partners required.
• Community Builder. Able to coalesce customers, members of the Microsoft (or similar) sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft (or similar) partners into productive working groups required.
• Excellent Communicator. Strong people negotiation, organizational, presentation, deep technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills required.
• Market Maker. Strong leadership and ability to influence key technical decision makers, influencers, industry decision makers and boards required.
• Consultative Technical Selling and Challenger mindset. Validated experience in consultative technical selling approach, including bringing innovative ideas to customers problems and being customer focused required
• Performer. Highly driven passionate person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations required.
• Lead. Able to lead, inspire and mentor members of sales, services, and marketing organizations and partners required.
• 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 required.

Consummate Professional  

• Experience. 5+ years of related experience in technical presales and/or technical consulting roles preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security Engineer preferred.

Certification in any one of the following two prefered: CEH, LPT, OSCP, or GPEN and CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, CCIA, GSED, ECSA or GISP

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.

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