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Microsoft Corporation Cloud Solution Architect - Data Security in Herzliya, Israel
Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their secure digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud security solutions and support offerings. Microsoft continues to invest over $1B per year in cybersecurity and research, to provide its customers with solutions that integrate across the ecosystem by connecting and securing all of your identities, endpoints, apps, emails, docs and clouds to help close critical gaps in coverage, reduce risk, and save costs with a streamlined security portfolio.
Microsoft Data Security Cloud Solution Architects are trusted advisors for customers attempting to secure their entire data estates against internal and external data risk. Microsoft Purview’s integrated Data Security services support customers holistically secure data:
Protect Sensitive Data using data classification, sensitivity labelling and encryption policies.
Manage Insider Risks using machine learning detection controls and indicators, adaptive protection to dynamically enforce controls and advanced privacy controls
Prevent Data Loss using built in exfiltration policies for Microsoft 365 apps, services and endpoints.
Cloud Solution Architects support customers through the whole adoption lifecycle, through planning, adoption, deployment and optimization. You will typically work within small “pod” teams and have access to a significant library of training, certification and usage guide resources.
Responsibilities
Customer Centricity
Identifies and evaluates security trends, gathers customer insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer’s business outcomes.
Acts as the voice of the customerby driving new feedback, insights, and resources to add and prioritize; connecting with Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap.
Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with CISOs, security practitioners, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders.
Uncovers, aggregates, and synthesizes data about customer’s security posture and roadmap, complex technical requirements and issuesand various technical strategies being proposed.
Actively listens, creates, and sustains constructive tension and trust with customers by respectfully challenging their decisions and/or areas where they might do more and encouraging them to consider alternative architectures/solutions and approaches.
Addresses security requirements/issues/strategies with win-win technical architecture(s) and demonstrates and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer.
Supports customer skilling by leading discussions on technical delivery with other internal and external stakeholders as a technical thought leader to influence customer readiness.
Guides other team members to focus on customer experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience andshares best practices with the wider internal team.
Business Impact
Drives their team in operating and optimizing complex and high-impact situations for strategic customers in collaboration with internal stakeholders (e.g., STU, CSAM, other Account Team members, Product Groups).
Anticipates and manages business and security risks, and adapts methodology (e.g. Zero Trust, Security Adoption Framework, SFI) and applies governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and security risks.
Leverages standard tools to ensure accurate opportunity and milestone execution and pipeline hygiene.
Owns complex customers relationships to anticipate, identify, propose resolution, and lead removal of technical blockers through regular security reviews and check-ins to accelerate consumption and usage.
Proactively uses deep knowledge of the security portfolio, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer conversations and to propose and coach others to develop new solutions to scale across multiple customers while demonstrating the business case and presenting alternative scenarios.
Creates opportunities to expand or accelerate security usage and consumption (including through security related managed intellectual property [VBD, DE, EDE]) and leads these customer conversations.
Leads the adoption of Microsoft’s Security offerings based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s).
Technical Leadership
Leverages market insights to assist leadership in defining global security vision by identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling. Role models effective securityskilling and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Drives and engages others to adapt to changes aligned with SA priorities. Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues by educating them on security and professional developmental concepts and sharing best practices.
Leads virtual teams around technologies and customer challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with security teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.
Organizes or presents at internal/industry security events (e.g., Ready, Build, Ignite, RSA, etc.). Demonstrates deep industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences. Participates in external security community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings across internal teams.
Qualifications
*Required Qualifications *
3+ years’ experience in Data Security / Information Security Management, or related field
3+ years of working in cloud infrastructure, IT consulting/support, systems administration, architecture and/or software development.
Good understanding of the principles of Data Security, such as data classification, encryption, sensitivity labelling, information protection policies and exfiltration controls
Experience in the implementation (end to end) of Data Security projects with Data Security Platforms, preferably experience with Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Information Risk Management)
Experience working with Microsoft 365 services and/or Azure data services such as Sharepoint, Teams, Office 365, SQL, Azure Data Lake Services.
*Preferred Qualifications *
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, or related field and 5+ years’ experience in Data / Information Management.
Ability to lead strategic customer conversations to educate and guide development of Data Security requirements.
Ability to lead strategic customer conversations to develop Data Security Frameworks and solution architecture design.
Experience in Content Services
SC-400 Microsoft Information Protection Administrator Certification by Microsoft
Programming experiences, using Microsoft Information Protection SDK (e.g. C#, Python)
Other technical Certification in Microsoft 365 and other Cloud technologies (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
Experience with Public Key Infrastructure in terms of key management and hierarchy.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
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