Solution Engineer, Security

About the Role

• Play a pivotal role in driving security across every stage of the development lifecycle.
• Accelerate career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment.
• Guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows.
• Help customers improve their security, modernize their applications leveraging AI, and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.
• This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel.
• Develop strategies and recommendations to improve client's security posture, shape technical win plans and tailor Microsoft messaging for security opportunities.
• Enhance team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust, and cloud security.
• Develop differentiated compete strategies for Microsoft Security for assigned customers.
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
• Deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel.
• Experience with extended detection and response (XDR) and zero trust.

Qualifications

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years 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., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).