Security Solution Engineer

Are you passionate about helping nonprofit organisations unlock the full potential of their data and artificial intelligence capabilities-while keeping them secure? As a Security Solution Engineer, you will be at the forefront of protecting mission-driven organisations from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. You'll guide nonprofits through their digital transformation journey by delivering Microsoft's cloud security solutions, including AI-driven threat detection, extended detection and response (XDR), SIEM, zero trust architecture, and multi-cloud security. Your role will be pivotal in helping nonprofits modernise infrastructure, safeguard sensitive data, and build resilient, secure environments that uphold trust and continuity of care

As Security Solution Engineer, you'll spend up to 75% of your time on qualified customer engagements-leading digital technical planning, orchestration, and delivery of demos, workshops, trials, and proof-of-concepts. You'll drive opportunity qualification and pipeline growth using Microsoft's Customer Engagement Methodology, and collaborate across sales, marketing, and partner teams to accelerate execution. You'll engage with nonprofit executives to influence strategy, manage the rhythm of the business through structured cadences, and stay sharp on technical, industry, and expertise. Your goal is to win the technical decision and deliver measurable outcomes that empower nonprofits to operate securely and confidently in a cloud-first world.

Responsibilities:

Sales Excellence

• Lead the discovery and qualification of new opportunities for Security cloud-based solutions, data services and AI solutions by building long-term relationships and by understanding customer priorities, budgets, and procurement processes.
• Develop compelling business cases aligned to measurable outcomes
• Maintain a healthy pipeline and provide regular updates on progress, including driving growth in cloud-based infrastructure migration opportunities, large data transformations and service consumption projects in targeted accounts.

Scaling and Collaboration

• Collaborate with account and technical teams to execute strategic plans for customer engagement, and coordinate internal and partner resources to deliver proof-of-concepts and minimum viable solutions.
• Align with partners to ensure the right expertise is engaged in strategic customer conversations and share opportunities with prioritized partners and ensure consistent review of partner referrals.

Industry Awareness

• Facilitate customer workshops with partners to explore business needs and spark interest in transformative technologies.
• Deliver solution demonstrations and solution accelerators to business and technical leaders to secure customer commitment to reinforce business impact.
• Use available tools and programs to educate customers and uncover new opportunities.

Sales Execution

• Focus on customer outcomes by increasing customer engagement through strengthening relationships with decision-makers to support digital transformation.
• Accelerate adoption in larger accounts by driving year-over-year growth and expand workloads in mid-sized accounts with emphasis on migration and modernization.
• Act on digital engagement signals and maintain a high-quality pipeline.

Learning

• Stay current with industry trends, solution capabilities, and customer needs and use skilling programs to support customer learning and adoption.

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.
• SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance., and Identity Fundamentals Certification or equivalent

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.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
• SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Certification or equivalent

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.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 19, 2025.

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