Technical Specialist- Cyber Security

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible Security, Compliance & Identity professional to join our global team of Technical Specialists. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and provide resources and support to everyone on our team.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** Scale Customer Engagements**:Remediates blockers; leads and ensures technical wins for Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity and adjacent technologies. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently; builds credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity; and searches for and uses Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity customer references.
- **Scale Through Partners**: Engages in partner sell-with scenarios and supports partner technical capacity.
- **Build Strategy**: Contributes to 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, cloud security identity access and management, information protection, privacy management, data governance and insider risk management and develops compete strategies for Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity 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, cloud security identity access and management, information protection, privacy management, data governance and insider risk management domain knowledge and practices expertise. Acts as a mentor for Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity, its integration with other Microsoft products & services, and Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity solutions generally; and increases internal virtual teams' understanding of extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust, cloud security identity access and management, information protection, privacy management, data governance and insider risk management solutions and new opportunities

**Qualifications**:

- Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Significant technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND Demonstrable technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Strong knowledge of cyber security principles
- Good understanding of complex networks, protocols, and networking technologies
- Good communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
- Good problem finding and solving skills
- Dedicated to achieving goals
- Strong work ethic
- English and Portuguese languages mandatory

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.