Microsoft Security Technical Specialist 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

30504220

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in any one of the following: CEH, LPT, CISSP, CCSP, or CCIA
• Certification in (or started) Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security Engineer Associate.

You will have the following attributes and want to expand on them:

• Growth Mindset.Experience and passion for learning (technical and soft skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from that; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit.
• Practitioner mindset. Committed to knowing not just what solutions can do but practices the skills required to properly implement solutions required.
• Insatiable Learner. Desire to know more than the standard and stretch to know more than Microsoft products.
• Challenger mindset. Ability to work across departments and teams, ability to think “outside of the box” and challenge customers to think differently
• Technical depth.Domain authority, having enterprise customer experience with design, configuration and implementation of Microsoft or other security & compliance solutions as well as competitive product knowledge
• Excellentpeople negotiation, organisational, presentation, technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Highly driven

Key Responsibilities​

• Scale Customer Engagements: Remediates blockers; leads and ensures technical wins for end-to-end Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies.
• Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently
• Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security.
• Scale Through Partners: Engages in partner sell-with scenarios and supports partner technical capacity.​
• Build Strategy: Contributes to Microsoft Security strategy development, shapes strategic 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 compete strategies for Microsoft Security for assigned customers.​
• Solution Design & Proof: Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations, presents, and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security.

• Coaches team in addressing customer digital transformation and leveraging insights to align new or changing technology to customer security needs.​
• Education: Builds their own readiness plan and grows extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security space domain knowledge and practices expertise. Acts as a mentor for Microsoft Security, its integration with other Microsoft products & services, and Microsoft Security solutions generally; and increases internal virtual teams' understanding of extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security space solutions and new opportunities.