Security Solution Engineer

Join Microsoft's US Public Sector Industries DIB Team-where mission meets innovation.

The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Operating Unit (OU) is a newly formed team with a bold mission : to consolidate, simplify, and accelerate Microsoft's presence across the DIB landscape. This expansive network includes over 100,000 organizations specializing in manufacturing, aviation, cybersecurity, and more-all united in their support of all Federal Agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense and other mission-based intelligence and civilian organizations.

Our team is dedicated to empowering these commercial contractors throughout their digital transformation journey-from envisioning new possibilities to delivering secure, scalable solutions that drive mission outcomes, elevate customer experience, and fuel Microsoft's growth.

The DIB OU will directly manage and accelerate strategic and major DIB accounts across Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Americas, while also enabling Defense Innovation growth across other OUs. We're building new relationships, transforming legacy operations, and helping our customers modernize with confidence.

We are looking for a Security Solution Engineer with a drive to help solve complex security challenges for our customers, enabling them to help modernize their security architecture and posture.? Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

As a Security Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in driving security across every stage of the development lifecycle. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. As a trusted technical advisor, you'll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows. In summary, you'll help customers improve their security, modernize their applications leveraging AI, and realize the full value of Microsoft's platform.

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

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 the client's security posture, shapestechnical win plan and tailors Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities. Enhances team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust and cloud security and develops differentiated compete strategies for Microsoft Security for assigned customers.?

Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums

Qualifications

Required / minimum qualifications :

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR equivalent experience.

Experience designing and implementing Information Security, Privacy and Information Governance solutions leveraging Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Priva and Microsoft Purview offerings or other DIB industry-aligned Security and Governance platforms and / or solutions

Working knowledge and demonstrated skill implementing solutions across the Security Development Lifecyle and integration security principles, patterns and practices into the DevOps lifecycle in an enterprise environment

Working knowledge and application of Zero Trust Principles, Patterns and Practices, Security Threat Modeling and Mitigation, Security Posture Management and Device and Workload Protection in an enterprise environment

Experience with Microsoft security solutions (M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel) or, one or more related technologies such as Prisma Cloud, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, Splunk, etc.

Other Requirements :

Cloud Screening : Candidates must be able to successfully complete and pass a Microsoft Cloud background screening. Required Cloud Screenings will be administered on a recurring bi-annual basis.

Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification : This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and / or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Additional or preferred qualifications :

Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Security Clearance.

Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

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).

Security Solution Engineer 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 :

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

#MCAPSA

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 () .