Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND at least 5 years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR 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.
- Fluency in Japanese language
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Sufficient years of experience with 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