Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of enterprise industry experience as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or similar, including direct responsibility for developing security strategies and security architectures for global companies and/or governments, and leading implementation and execution of strategies.
- Information Security knowledge and/or hands-on experience with any combination of the following: information security competency - including Identity and Access Management, Security Operations (SOC), network security, Secuirty Development Lifecycle (SDL), cryptography, key management, hardware security modules, security architecture and design,operations security, legal/risk/compliance, and physical security.
- Business level fluency to read, write and speak English.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
- 8+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
- Deep knowledge of security issues & trends, able to articulate the high-level Microsoft security strategy to both technical & non-technical audiences with a detailed understanding of Microsoft 365 and Azure security frameworks, all service-level security capabilities (including details of defense-in-depth implementation – data encryption, data isolation, lock box, customer key, datacenter security, etc.), and all customer controls (identity & access
management, RMS, encryption, etc.) - In-depth knowledge of security principles, compliance standards and ability to apply them in diverse business contexts., with detailed understanding of current compliance status for industry standard security & audit frameworks (such as ISO27001, HIPAA, SSAE16, FISMA, NIS2, etc.), and compliance features.
- Experienced and credible communicator who can cast security in the language of the business, discussing Microsoft’s security strategy with CISO & other C-level executives and government representatives and comfortable navigating in complex and high-pressure sales scenarios.
- Demonstrate ability to influence without authority to drive change with both our strategic customers as well as internal stakeholders.