Cyber Security Cloud Solution Architect

As a Cyber Security Cloud Solution Architect, you will support our UK based customers in making their environment more secure. You evaluate the customers infrastructure, and help the customer to use and understand the Microsoft Security Portfolio. The Cloud Solution Architect consults and removes blocker in the customers security journey.

Our Security CSAs work with Enterprise level customers on the bleeding edge of our Security solution stack. Microsoft is a recognised globally leader in Security which is evidence in our products and solution positions in Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Waves.

With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% 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.

Responsibilities

You will lead and support on strategic customers, who leverages existing architecture approach or reference architecture to propose a security solution or achieve Microsoft''s agreed commitments to the customer.

• Help customers create their security plan and strategy to transform their security practices to a more modern and cloud-native approach, using Microsoft security solutions.
• Proposes viable solutions based on specific MS security products. demonstrates complex concepts and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customers.
• Apply technical knowledge of security architecture and solutions to meet business and information technology requirements and resolve identified technical constraints.
• Supports customer projects as a subject matter expert in a specific Microsoft Security solution.
• Understanding Customer Technical Environment
• Gather customer insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs) and leverages these insights and existing plans to map solutions with customer business outcomes. Identifies technical blockers to accelerate consumption and deployment.
• Proactively support customers in their Azure cloud adoption journey, helping them to define a Secure Architecture, implementing the necessary security and compliance controls.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a breadth of knowledge across cloud security computing domains and expert level hands-on experience in Microsoft Security – SIEM & XDR, Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, and Identity – Expertise focus:

• Microsoft Sentinel
• M365 Defender
  • Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
  • Defender for Identity (MDI)
  • Defender for Office (MDO
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC)

Breadth of technical security experience and knowledge, with depth and Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following:

• SIEM and Cloud Security Analytics
• Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Preferred/ Additional Requirement

• Experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting
• Business Value: The ability to convey the business need and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy
• Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
• Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
• Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft Azure and Security architecture, Microsoft Security, CISSP, CCSP.

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