Overview

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Security, data protection, and privacy are vital pillars in our mission. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their secure digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud security solutions and support offerings. Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, flexible, and Secure cloud platform today. Microsoft is hiring security professionals to drive customer cloud security adoption for customers around the world.

Microsoft continues to invest by quadrupling its cybersecurity investment to $20 billion over the next five years to provide its customers with solutions that integrate across the ecosystem by connecting all of your identities, endpoints, apps, emails, docs and clouds to help you close critical gaps in coverage, reduce risk, and save costs with a streamlined security portfolio

Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Security Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to drive customer transformation on the Azure and Microsoft 365 Platform. This is a customer-facing role, owning the overall technical relationship and strategy between the customer and Microsoft.

You will own security, data security or identity customer engagements, including architecture, technical readiness, implementation, and optimization in production. Therefore, you will deliver pro-active support delivery services through the customer’s unified contract.

The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles driving cybersecurity initiatives and leading in-depth technical security discussions OR experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC). The ideal candidate will be comfortable having security discussions with customer decision makers such as CISOs, Enterprise Security Architects, Enterprise Architects, IT and Security Management, and Developers to drive Security as an enabler for cloud workloads in Azure and Microsoft 365.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Significant technical experience in Security, identity, or data security and understanding of architectures at enterprise-scale, security hands-on experience

Good understanding of the overall Cybersecurity Market and the competitive landscape Understanding of the current Threat Landscape and current attack vectors (State of Cybersecurity)

In-depth knowledge/ Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following solutions or competitive products:

Entra ID (former Azure Active Directory)

Defender for Identity

Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Office

Defender for Cloud

Defender for Apps

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Sentinel

Copilot for Security

Customer focused mindset enjoying the work with customers (internal or external) as a trusted technical advisor aiming for realizing the value for the customer.

English skills required, German skills are an advantage.

Further Key Skills

Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with security decision makers. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on security solutions/projects.

Consultative and problem-solving skills. Ability to solve customer security, data security, or identity problems through cloud technologies

Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.

Customer Focus. Customer obsessed leader with an “if I don’t know how to get it done, I’ll find someone who does” approach to solving customer challenges

Value Realization. Ability to understand customer business objectives and outcomes and ability to quickly leverage tech solutions to accomplish those outcomes

Trusted Technical Advisor. Ability to build strong relationships with security decision makers and build credibility and be viewed as a trusted advisor

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.