Microsoft Security Technology Specialist Public Sector 

Australia 

268252081

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​

• Customer Engagements: As a subject Matter expert leads end-to-end Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies conversations with Customers.
• 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 extensively via Microsoft partners to support them in key scenarios and supports partner technical capacity.​
• Build Strategy: Contributes to Microsoft Security strategy development, Showcases Microsoft Security Platform capabilities to Senior stakeholders.
• 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.