Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect 

United States 

66274496

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Preferred/ Additional Requirement:

• Experience in Microsoft Security:Extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM), Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, and Identity – Expertise focus with: Sentinel, Azure Arc, Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC), Azure Security
• Experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting
• Business Value: The ability to convey the business need and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy
• Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
• Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
• Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft Azure and Security architecture, Microsoft Security, CISSP, CCSP.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• You will lead and support on strategic customers, who leverages existing architecture approach or reference architecture to propose a security solution or achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the customer.
• Help customers create their security plan and strategy to transform their security practices to a more modern and cloud-native approach, using Microsoft security solutions.
• Proposes viable solutions based on specific Microsoft security products. demonstrates complex concepts and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customers.
• Apply technical knowledge of security architecture and solutions to meet business and information technology requirements and resolve identified technical constraints.
• Supports customer projects in a specific Microsoft Security solution.
• Understanding Customer Technical Environment Gather customer insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs) and leverages these insights and existing plans to map solutions with customer business outcomes. Identifies technical blockers to accelerate consumption and deployment.
• Proactively support customers in their Azure cloud adoption journey, helping them to define a Secure Architecture, implementing the necessary security and compliance controls.