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Solution Engineering - Cyber Security

Posted on Aug. 6, 2025

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
0 - 0 USD (yearly)

Full Time

Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you share and build on other’s ideas, because we are better together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of innovation at Microsoft?

With over 10,000 global security experts, $4 billion invested annually in research and development, and the latest in AI and automation, our security is already working to help protect customers around the world and Microsoft is hiring for the Security Solution Engineer (SE) role.

The Security Solution Engineer main goal is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our cybersecurity technology. You will work in a team, enabling customers through digital transformation by leveraging the Cybersecurity Reference Architecture . Ses are expected to be able to both own and win the customers technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and work they are on for sales people to further pursue. As a SE, you work within a virtual team of sales, technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly Microsoft 365 and Azure 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 technologies.

Responsibilities

You will be the lead technical subject matter expert for cybersecurity within your account teams.

You will deliver proof of Microsoft’s technology solutions to customers and secure their agreement that our solutions meet the success criteria for their security architecture.
You provide the sales team with valuable technical insights through business acumen to outperform competitors and demonstrate the advantages of the Microsoft Platform to customers.
You can effectively demonstrate the value of the Microsoft security platform to both CxOs and IT professionals.

You will help customers make technical decisions to build tomorrow’s business and IT solutions based on Microsoft technology.

You will lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, and pilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft's products and services, and how we can make their businesses more successful.
You will lead to clear technical, competitive and security blockers to accelerate Security sales and customer usage.
You will own winning the technical decision at customers for sales opportunities and usage scenarios, through tailoring your message, bringing ideas to customers, engaging with them to show our technology differentiation, and guiding them in decision making.
You will work with partners and others at Microsoft, as well as use our core tools, to extend your reach and the reach of your team, focusing on satisfying important customer needs

You will be a vital connection and orchestration point for a variety of technical resources, by:

Orchestrating complex solutions with internal and external partners for multiple Microsoft products and services.
Helping identify and diagnose technical, architectural, and competitive blockers and respective solutions for sales opportunities and usage decision blockers and helping ensure that these solutions are implemented.
Sharing practical knowledge with partners to drive the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.
Shaping current and future products, marketing strategies, and customer centricity ideas through your feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering.

You will stay sharp, share your knowledge, and learn practices from others.

We encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills, and competitive readiness.
Your knowledge will be enhanced and shared by participating in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry through events, blogs, white papers, training, and articles for your domain.

You will be recognized for sharing, learning, and driving individual work that all result in business impact for customers, partners and within Microsoft. Microsoft encourages thought leadership and leadership from every employee.

Qualifications

Cybersecurity Expertise: Proven experience across the full security stack—Zero Trust, SASE, data governance, DLP, threat intelligence, identity & access management, and security operations.
Data Protection Leadership: Skilled in encryption, key management, secure data lifecycle, and classification to safeguard sensitive information.
Technical Depth & Breadth: Hands-on experience with Microsoft and competitive solutions (e.g., Netskope, Symantec, Varonis, Proofpoint, Cisco). Strong understanding of architecture design, migrations, and technology management.
Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with RGPD, NIS2, DORA, and sovereignty challenges. Able to articulate how Microsoft solutions address compliance needs.
Consultative Approach: You think beyond products—bringing innovative ideas to customer challenges with a practitioner mindset and a Challenger selling style.

Qualifications
Several years in technical presales or consulting roles.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (preferred).
Microsoft 365 Security or Azure Security certification (preferred). Additional certifications such as:
SC-200, SC-300, SC-400, AZ-500, CEH, LPT, OSCP, CIPP/E, GPEN, CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, CCIA, GSED, ECSA, GISP (preferred)
Language Requirement: Must speak French fluently to support regional customers and teams.

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.

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