Digital Security Engineer

Microsoft is seeking a Digital Security Engineer to strengthen security capabilities across a virtual sales, technical, partner, and consulting team. In this onsite role in the United States, you will help shape solution design and technical leadership efforts for XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and Microsoft Purview, with an emphasis on enabling clients to protect and govern sensitive data while meeting regulatory and privacy requirements.

What you’ll do

• Serve as a subject matter expert delivering technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, and production-ready pilots for Microsoft solutions, with focus on top-of-funnel customer acquisition and potentially new cloud technologies.
• Coordinate complex solutions with internal and external partners across multiple Microsoft online services and solutions.
• Support competitive strategy by leveraging partner and internal teams, and act as the voice of the customer by driving feedback, identifying blockers, and sharing insights and resource needs across communities to support customer outcomes and usage growth.
• Identify and troubleshoot technical, architectural, and competitive blockers, and develop solutions for sales and usage decision blockers while helping ensure proposals are implemented, validated, and integrated into customer environments in line with Microsoft standards.
• Prepare technical insights and key scenarios to drive the right technical and business solution outcomes.
• Lead technical discussions against competitors in the security domain, including Microsoft and competitor offerings.
• Demonstrate a willingness to invest in personal learning in cybersecurity alongside team members.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field AND 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines, such as Microsoft Office 365; Power BI; Azure Administrator, Architecture, and Development exams; Cloud Platform Technologies; Information Security; Architecture.

Technologies you’ll work with

• Microsoft Purview
• Extended detection and response (XDR)
• Zero trust
• Microsoft Office 365
• Power BI
• Azure Administrator
• Azure Architecture
• Azure Development exams
• Cloud Platform Technologies
• Information Security
• Architecture

Education and experience (additional or preferred)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field AND 12+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (examples listed in the required qualifications).

Compensation

• The typical base pay range across the U.S. is USD 130,900 - 251,900 per year.
• Different ranges apply for specific locations. In the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD 165,600 - 272,300 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Additional benefits and pay information are available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay.

Application process

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