Solution Engineer, Security
Microsoft
Solution Engineer, Security
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Overview
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 Solutions Engineer, 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.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ 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 experience
- OR Master’s degree in a related field and 3+ years of experience OR equivalent relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 6+ years in technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery
- 4+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure—covering architecture design, migrations, technology management, and industry standards
- 7+ years of total experience in technical pre-sales, consulting, or a related technical role
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and familiarity with security frameworks such as CIS, NIST, or CSA
- Hands-on experience with the following regarded highly: SIEM systems, Next-Gen Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways, Threat detection, log analysis, incident response, Cloud security architectures (e.g., Zero Trust, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, cloud code security)
- Technical certifications in any of the following are regarded highly: Microsoft 365 Security Administration
Azure Security, Azure Architect or Developer certifications, Office 365, Power BI, Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, IAAP
Other requirements
This position requires verification of Australian citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports Australian government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
Responsibilities
- Primary technical point of contact for potential customers during the sales process, owing 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. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently; builds credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security; and searches for and uses Microsoft Security customer references; and facilitates handoff to customer success for post sales deployment.
- Develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client's security posture, shapes technical win plan and tailors Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities. Enhances team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security and develops 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.
- Drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security. Leverages insights and coaches' teams to align new or changing technology to customer security needs.
- Responsible for engaging with other teams within and outside the organization throughout the sales cycle. Engaging partners in sell-with scenarios and supporting their technical capabilities is key to scaling solution delivery.