Cloud Solution Architect

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

As a Cloud Solution Architect - Security you will specialize in one or more of the following categories: Cloud Security, Threat Protection, or Identity and Access Management (IDAM) depending on your experience. You will enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your technical and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.

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**:
This role will give you the opportunity to leverage your experience in customer-facing roles and success in leading in-depth technical security architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Security Architects, Enterprise Architects, IT Management, and Developers to Secure our customer’s technology estate and drive Security as an enabler for Azure and Microsoft 365 workloads.

Key responsibilities include:

- Land an end-to-end value prop for Security (i.e. Zero Trust) which spans the breadth of Microsoft Security offerings.
- Empower customers in their Microsoft Security adoption journey, helping them to define a Secure strategy, Architecture, and implementation of necessary security controls aligned with Microsoft Azure and M365 E5 Security Services including Identity and Access management, Threat Protection, Cloud Security, Information Protection.
- Perform hands-on activities, supporting the customer in evaluating native security solutions in areas such as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Azure Active Directory, among others.
- Accelerate Business Value of overall Azure adoption by improving security posture and ensuring that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” or “Well-Architected” framework, such as high-performance levels, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment.- Run Architectural Design Session to build a plan for implementing the solution - governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
- Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap.
- Trouble shoot technical issues to prove value of implementation of Security technologies.
- Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions with the Microsoft Security platform.
- Orchestrate technical resources that may be required to deliver business outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 2+ 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.
- Technical aptitude in one or more of the next:

- Cloud security: design, architect, and implement Azure Security solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel that meet business, IT, Regulatory needs - infusing Azure Security technologies where appropriate OR related technologies from other providers.
- Threat Protection: design, architect, and implement Microsoft Security solutions such as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel to meet business, IT, Regulatory needs OR related technologies from other providers.
- Advanced written and spoken English level.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 5+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice