In SMC and Digital Sales, we have set out with the purpose to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. Dedicated to one of the fastest growing customer segments, the Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) and Digital Sales organization is on pace to be Microsoft's next $100 billion-dollar business - this is where you come in.

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? If so, we are looking for you!   

We are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible  Security Technical Specialists   with a drive to help solve complex security challenges for our customers, enabling them to help modernize their security architecture and posture.  We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn.  

As a  Security Technical Specialist , you will be a senior technical sales leader and trusted customer advisor, working with cutting-edge security technologies such as Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud and Sentinel.

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

• Deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for cloud and Sentinel.  

• Coordinate weekly with sellers and manager to understand opportunities, compete scenarios and engagements to focus on, engaging and driving to own and win the technical decisions  

• 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 drives customer intent to buy 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.   

• Demonstrates and oversees proof of concepts, presents and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security. Leverages insights and coaches' teams to align new or changing technology to customer security needs.   

• A technical specialist is 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.  

• You would spend 20% of your work hours maintaining deep theoretical and experiential technical knowledge of MS security solutions, competitive landscape and industry trends.  

• As a technical specialist you would document and share best practices and learning with others enabling and contributing to the success of others on your team  

• Share knowledge and learnings with partners to drive the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.  

• Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.  

• Other: Embody our  culture  and  values  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Fluent German is essential

• Demonstrated Security Technology pre-sales or Security Technology consulting experience. 

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience. 

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience 

• OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security  

• One or more of Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, iAPP, etc.  

• Hands on technical knowledge of relevant products and solutions, but not limited to: 

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems  

• Next Gen Web Application Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways.  

• Experience with Threat detection technologies  

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of one or more cloud security standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, CSA, etc. 

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