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The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.
We are currently looking for Customer Engineers with Security technology expertise to join our Customer Success team serving the Federal Civilian Government.
As a Customer Engineer, you will be a key technical resource for the customer to help drive digital transformation through all Azure technologies. You will be working with our customers to help build, deploy, operate, support, and optimize a customer's cloud or on-premise environment.ResponsibilitiesWork with Federal agencies to strengthen their cybersecurity posture with Microsoft products.
Support Management - 50%

• Participate in proactive account management, spot performance issues, analyze problems, develop solutions to meet customer needs, represent them.
• Provides the most effective method of service delivery by analyzing trends and common themes across customers.
• Create deliverables to address common customer needs & support mobile-first, cloud-first strategy, share intellectual property with others.
• Engages in strategic service delivery planning, in partnership with the virtual account team, to strengthen targeted customer relationships.
• Gathers customer impressions of products and services and integrates this feedback into decision making.
• Seeks information about the underlying needs of customers.
• Develops and communicates realistic performance goals and standards.
• Builds plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate and long-term consequences.
• Demonstrates expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services.
• Provides stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues.

Support Execution - Deliver Results through Teamwork & Optimizing Business Results - 25%

• Seeks opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by collaborating with multiple team members.
• Identifies opportunities to articulate business value and grow customer/partner relationships in alignment with Customer Success business priorities and stakeholder management principles.
• Provides and drives actionable feedback across groups about the customer/partner experience and competitor threats.
• Modifies and delivers existing intellectual property (IP) or, where applicable, creates new content.
• Seeks opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by collaborating with multiple team members.

Leadership and Growing the Business - 25%

• Consistently apply "lessons learned", model personal accountability & teamwork.
• Demonstrates an understanding of his or her role and contribution to customer/partner change management and adoption initiatives.
• Demonstrates the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services, and to position them against competitors.
• Demonstrates expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services.
• Identifies business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impact, and proposes mitigations and contingencies.
• Provides stakeholder and business decision maker assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues.
• Understands customer/partner requirements and can map the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions accordingly.
• Drives and Supports innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform.
• Contribute & participate with meetings to articulate support offerings to all customers; share knowledge thru communities, adapt for customers.
• Cultivates relationships, credibility, and loyalty with customers and partners intentionally by sharing relevant business expertise.

QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

• At least 1+ years of experience working with customers in any of the following: providing technical readiness and training, delivery of support services, on-premises and remote technical support, solution development, account management, technical requirements gathering, broad evangelism through events or related experience.
• At least 1+ years of security related experience with any of the following security domain technologies:
  • Azure and Cloud Security Engineering
  • Azure Security Infrastructure, Databases, Networking, Virtual Machines
  • Azure Secrets and Keys
  • Azure Identity
  • Troubleshooting of data logging and audit, security monitoring
  • Azure Governance and Compliance
  • Microsoft Defender for Identity
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Microsoft Client/Server Operating Systems Security, including related services (eg Certificate Authority, authentication/authorization mechanisms, encryption, health attestation)
  • Microsoft Security recommendation experience (eg Securing Privileged Access, Credential Theft Mitigations)
  • Azure Security Services (eg Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Security Center, Azure Log Analytics)
  • Security Threat Landscape experience including advanced attack vectors and tools (eg Pass the Hash, Golden Ticket, ransomware)
• Infrastructure Security experience with competitive cloud security technologies, cloud security platforms, or any of the following:
  • Cloud workload protection
  • Threat protection
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Stateful firewall. (NG Firewall)
  • Data encryption and protection key services.
  • SIEM, and Cloud Security Analytics
  • Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
  • Security Operation Center
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Microsoft 365 Security
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Compliance
  • Records Management
  • eDiscovery/Advanced eDiscovery
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Information Governance
  • Information Protection
  • Insider Risk Management
  • Security
  • Advanced Hunting
  • Simulation Training
  • Threat Analytics
  • Investigations
• Modern Management - Mobility and Security Solutions in any of the following:
  • Microsoft Intune;Autopilot, Desktop Analytics, Conditional Access, identity governance, Azure Active Directory (AAD), Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS); Advanced Threat Analytics; Defender for O365, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
  • Endpoint Management Security related technologies:
  • Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite + Security (EMS), Active Directory/Identity, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (D-ATP)
  • Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
  • Other endpoint security solutions and comprehensive threat protection technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively working in a fast-paced environment where technology and customers' requirements can change regularly
• Demonstrated aptitude for providing extraordinary customer service, influence, and impact while problem solving and building Customer & Partner relationships.
• Possess a passion for continuous learning, strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking and good judgement
• Ability to apply product & technology knowledge to improve Microsoft products and the customer experience
• Solid understanding of client/server, networking, and Internet technologies fundamentals.
• Technical Delivery and Customer facing presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Must have the ability to take on internal initiatives to create services opportunities, and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands, addressing shifting priorities, and maintaining focus
• Overnight travel may be required. Travel requirements vary regionally

US Citizenship: The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen. Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security 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.
The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $119,200 and $178,800.
Candidates selected for this position must comply with Federal Executive Order 14042 mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine by being fully vaccinated before their date of hire, or work with Microsoft to receive an approved religious or medical accommodation.
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