Microsoft Digital Technology Specialist Security UK Market 

Ireland, Dublin 

358301950

by helping clients secure their organizations

• Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND sufficient years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND sufficient years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• years of experiencewith cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

• Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).

• Strategic thinking & execution. Ability to develop sales and business strategy options, while also being able to successfully execute plans and build strong relationships.

• Excellent Communicator. Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, financial acumen, written, and verbal communication skills.

• High Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations and has the ability, characteristics, and determination to compete effectively against skilled and diverse competition.

• Cloud Trust. Demonstrated knowledge of identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance, including cloud and hybrid solutions required.

• Technical breadth. Customer experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management; broad experience with Microsoft 365 Security and/or Azure Security products or equivalent solutions from other vendors.

• Technical depth. Practical enterprise customer experience with configuration and implementation of Microsoft or other security & compliance solutions as well as competitive product knowledge (ex. CrowdStrike, Okta, Splunk, Palo Alto, Proofpoint, Google/Mandiant, Chronicle, Zscaler, Mimecast, VMware, Symantec and Others) required

• Certification in Microsoft Security Ops Analyst Associate(SC-200) and/or Cybersecurity Architect expert(SC-100) required.

• Certification among the following preferred: CEH, LPT, OSCP, GPEN, CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, CCIA, GSED, ECSA or GISP

• Security practitioner. Experience and ability to explain key solutions and architectures for confidentiality, integrity and availability across multiple cybersecurity and compliance topics including endpoint detection and response, anti-malware, persistent threats, email security, user behavior and analytics, threat intelligence, threat hunting and forensics, information protection, application management, security management and/or auditing and governance required.
• Identity practitioner. Experienced professional conversant in cloud-based identity and access management solutions as well as hybrid architectures and integration of cloud-based apps (SaaS) required.

• Scale Customer Engagements - Subject matter expert leading technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, production ready pilots for the Microsoft solutions, with a focus on customer acquisition efforts at the top of the funnel and potentially new to our cloud technologies.

• Scale Through Partners - Orchestrating complex solutions with internal and external partners for multiple Microsoft online services and solutions.

• Build Strategy - Influences competitive strategy leveraging partner and internal teams; Acts as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resource items across communities to support customer’s business outcomes and opportunities to promote usage.

• Solution design & Proof - Helping identify and diagnose technical, architectural, and competitive blockers and respective solutions for sales opportunities and usage decision blockers and helping ensure that these solutions are implemented, prove capabilities and integration into customer environment in alignment with Microsoft standards.

• Technical Leadership - Prepare technical insights and key scenarios required to drive the right technical and business solution outcomes.