Role overview
About this role
Are you passionate about cybersecurity, AI, and helping organizations stay resilient in an increasingly complex threat landscape?
Join Microsoft as a Digital Security Solution Engineer (covering Italian Market - role based in Dublin or Barcelona) and help mid-market customers secure their digital transformation while unlocking the potential of AI.
In this technical sales role, you will partner with business and technical decision-makers to design and implement modern security architectures that protect identities, endpoints, data, applications, cloud workloads, and AI environments. You will leverage Microsoft's end-to-end security portfolio to help customers reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and accelerate innovation.
What You'll Do
- Lead customer security transformation initiatives aligned to business and compliance requirements.
- Design and demonstrate solutions across Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, and Security Copilot.
- Help customers adopt Zero Trust architectures, modernize Security Operations (SOC), and strengthen threat detection and response capabilities.
- Drive conversations around Data Security, governance, compliance, and secure AI adoption.
- Showcase how Agentic AI Security and AI-powered security operations can improve productivity, accelerate investigations, and enhance cyber resilience.
- Collaborate with Microsoft teams, partners, and customer stakeholders to deliver impactful security outcomes.
What You'll Bring
- Passion for cybersecurity, cloud, and AI technologies.
- Knowledge of security domains such as identity, endpoint, data, cloud, and AI security.
- Understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and modern security operations.
- Customer engagement and solution design skills.
- Growth mindset with a desire to continuously learn and earn industry certifications.
Why Microsoft SME&C
Join a high-growth, AI-powered organization where innovation, collaboration, and customer success are at the center of everything we do. You'll have the opportunity to develop deep expertise in Microsoft's rapidly evolving security portfolio while helping customers build secure, resilient, and AI-ready businesses.
Key focus areas: Security Copilot • Agentic AI Security • Data Security • Zero Trust • Threat Protection • SOC Modernization • Secure AI Adoption • Cyber Resilience
- Drive technical security sales through compelling demonstrations, assessments, proof of concepts, and architecture engagements that showcase the value of Microsoft Security solutions and accelerate customer adoption.
- Lead security architecture discussions and technical workshops focused on Zero Trust, Data Security, Security Operations modernization, Secure AI, and Cyber Resilience.
- Build trusted relationships with CISOs, Security Leaders, IT teams, and business stakeholders to co-design secure, scalable, and compliant security strategies.
- Remove technical blockers and accelerate deployment success by collaborating with engineering teams, partners, and product groups while bringing customer insights into product innovation.
- Maintain deep expertise across Microsoft Security, including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Security Copilot, and cloud security practices.
- Guide customers through security transformation initiatives, including Zero Trust adoption, threat protection, identity security, data security, compliance, governance, and AI security.
- Develop expertise in Agentic AI Security, helping customers secure AI applications, intelligent agents, data access, and AI-driven business processes.
- Collaborate with strategic security partners and ecosystem providers to deliver integrated security solutions that meet customer business and regulatory requirements.
- Represent Microsoft as a trusted security advisor through customer forums, executive briefings, industry events, and technical communities, demonstrating thought leadership in cybersecurity and AI security.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
- 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).
- Italian speaking
Digital Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 60,300.00 - € 102,600.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Find additional benefits and pay information here:https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html
Digital Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Spain is € 53,000.00 - € 92,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.Find additional benefits and pay information here:https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/spain-corporate-pay.html
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.