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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, 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 achieve our mission.
Microsoft continues to invest by quadrupling its cybersecurity investment to $20 billion over the next five years, providing its customers with solutions that integrate across the ecosystem. This helps connect all identities, endpoints, apps, emails, docs, and clouds to close critical gaps in coverage, reduce risk, and save costs with a streamlined security portfolio. We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible security solution engineer to join our MEA HQ team.
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions:
- Up to 50% work from home
- Travel: 0-25%
- Employment Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities
As a Security Solution Engineer, your primary goal is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our range of security-focused solutions, including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel. You will work within a virtual team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to:
- Educate your customers at a technical level
- Demonstrate and prove our solutions
- Win the technical decision, allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly Microsoft Security sales/usage targets in your accounts
Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based security solutions, architectures, programs, and technologies.
Qualifications
- Scale Customer Engagements: Remediate blockers; lead and ensure technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies. Build credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security.
- Scale Through Partners: Engage in partner sell-with scenarios and support partner technical capacity.
- Build Strategy: Contribute to Microsoft Security strategy development, shape strategic win plans, and enhance team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust, and cloud security.
- Solution Design & Proof: Demonstrate and oversee demonstrations; present and apply architecture patterns; prove capabilities and integration into customer environments.
- Education: Build your own readiness plan and grow expertise in extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust, and cloud security space. Mentor others in Microsoft Security and its integration with other Microsoft products and services.
Benefits
- Industry-leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please let us know.
