Security Solution Engineer

Overview

The purpose of our Americas Sales Excellence & Operations Enterprise Usage Excellence team is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.

As a Security Solution Engineer for the Americas Sales Excellence & Operations Enterprise Usage Excellence team, you will play a critical role in accelerating customer Security transformation by leading technical engagements that drive customer adoption of Microsoft Identity, Data Protection, and Threat Protection AI-powered security solutions. This role is deeply technical and is responsible for delivering compelling demonstrations and guiding customers through envisioning sessions that align with their business goals and technical requirements. As a trusted advisor, the Security Solution Engineer ensures that governance, security, and compliance are embedded in every conversation to build confidence and drive decision-making. By focusing on usage optimization, you will interact with existing customers to help them realize the value of products they own but may not be utilizing to their full potential.

In addition to technical leadership, the Security Solution Engineer is accountable for driving core business momentum through competitive differentiation, technical blocker resolution, and seamless handoffs to deployment teams. You will work within a virtual team of 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 targets in your accounts. The role emphasizes operational excellence, partner collaboration, and continuous learning to ensure scalable impact and sustained customer success. This is a high-impact opportunity for individuals passionate about shaping the future of work through AI and delivering measurable business outcomes. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Maintain expert-level knowledge in Microsoft Security solutions (Entra, Purview, Defender and Sentinel) and apply it to lead technical engagements with customers.
• Independently deliver discovery, demo, and whiteboarding sessions that align with customer business goals and technical readiness.
• Build competitive strategy by identifying product differentiators and proactively addressing objections to win technical decisions.
• Lead solution design and PoC efforts by reframing customer challenges, quantifying business impact, and demonstrating Microsoft's value in complex selling environments.
• Know when and how to escalate blockers, push back on misaligned objections, and guide customers through resolution paths.
• Engage in partner sell-with scenarios by co-owning technical execution and acting as a trusted source of partner knowledge.
• Other
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Preferred 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.
• 4+ years technical Security and/or Identity pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• 3+ years of experience in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or consulting roles.
• L200 consultative and L400 technical certifications (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management Security and/or Identity
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Entra, Purview, Defender and Sentinel). SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, SC-401, SC-500

Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.