Senior Security Solution Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Security Solution Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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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? 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 Engineer 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.
We are looking for a Senior Security Solution Engineer with a drive to help solve complex security challenges for our customers, enabling them to help modernize their security architecture and posture. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
As a Senior Security Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving security across every stage of the development lifecycle. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers improve their security, modernize their applications leveraging AI, and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.
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/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting experience
- OR 5+ years technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience..
- 4+ years' experience with developing and delivering customer demos/proof of concepts for Security across competitive offerings
- 2+ years of experience leading technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
- 4+ years of technical experience and/or knowledge in Cloud Security including ANY of the following:
- Design and Implement Information Security, Privacy and Information Governance solutions leveraging Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Microsfot Sentinel, Priva and Microsoft Purview offerings or other Security and Governance platforms and/or solutions.
- Implement solutions across the Security Development Lifecycle and intergration security principles, patterns and practices into the DevOps lifecycle in an enterprise environment.
- Working knowledge and application of Zero Trust Principles, Patterns and Practices, Security Threat Modeling and Mitigation, Security Posture Management Device and Workload Protection in an enterprise environment.
- Experience with Microsoft security solutions (M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel) or, one or more related technologies such as Prisma Cloud, Crowstrike, Proofpoint, Splunk. etc.
Other Requirements:
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- 6+ 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).
Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
- Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
- Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions
- Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
- Maintain deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for cloud and Sentinel.
- 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.
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums