Security Cloud Solution Architect

at  Microsoft

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.

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Significant technical experience in Security, identity, or data security and understanding of architectures at enterprise-scale
• Good understanding of the overall Cybersecurity Market and the competitive landscape Understanding of the current Threat Landscape and current attack vendors (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 Office
• Defender for Endpoint
• Defender for Cloud
• Microsoft Purview (esp. Azure Information Protection OR eDiscovery OR Data loss prevention OR Insider Risk Management)
• 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 a plus.

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.
Problem Solving. 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

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Tech Enthusiast. Demonstrate the end-to-end value of Microsoft’s Security offerings including architectural discussions and framework such as Zero Trust. Ensure that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” or “Well-Architected” framework, such as high-performance levels, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment.
Customer Obsessed. Empower customers to be successful in their Microsoft Security adoption journey in complex environments by helping to define a Secure strategy, Architecture, and implementation of necessary security controls aligned with Microsoft Security Services including Threat Protection, Monitoring, Cloud Security, and Identity and Access Management. Thereby, understand challenges, trouble shoot technical issues and be a voice of the customer to share insights and best practices with Global Security teams at Microsoft to remove blockers and influence the roadmap.
Team Player. Collaborate and contribute to the Cloud Solution Architect Community in Germany and worldwide to learn, get help and share knowledge. Take over technical leadership and orchestrate technical experts and resources that may be required to deliver outcomes.
Lifelong learner. Growth mindset is one of the key principles at Microsoft. Own your readiness path and build a plan and routines to continuously learn new Microsoft security and data security technologies and grow. Act as a mentor to enable others to learn from you and facilitate virtual team learning opportunities
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations