Security Technology Specialist

Overview
Security has never been more top of mind for governments and businesses, and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping nations and citizens secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. As the largest security company in the world, we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. We are excited to be expanding our team with ambitious, diversified, and driven talent, eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime. We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn.

As a Security Technical Specialist you will work within a virtual team of sales, technical, partner and consulting resources to enhance the team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security. Being part of this team will allow you to improve both your consultative selling skills as well as your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based security solutions, architectures, programs, and technologies. You will make impact by helping customers secure their organizations.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible security professional to join our Danish team of Technical Security. In this role, your account coverage will include Denmark's largest enterprises in public as well as private sector. You will take the lead in technical sales and initial deployment guidance among entire cybersecurity and future products like Copilot for Security.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities
The Security Technology Specialist will be responsible for the following:

• Scale Customer Engagements: Remediates blockers; leads and ensures technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently; builds credibility as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security; and searches for and uses Microsoft Security customer references.
  
• 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.
• Deep engagement: Takes the lead of technical sales and initial deployment guidance among entire cybersecurity, data security and future products like Copilot for Security for Denmark's largest enterprises.

Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• Experience from global security team (e.g., Security Analyst or Security Architect).
• Master's OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
• General understandings of Microsoft's security portfolio and the platform capabilities.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g. SC-100).
• Experience from technical presales team from other security company.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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Work site
Up to 50% work from home