Public Sector Pre-Sales Engineer

Public Sector Pre-Sales Engineer
Location: Remote, East Coast United States
US Citizenship Required
Are you passionate about helping to solve the critical cybersecurity challenges that enterprises are facing today? If so, we are seeking a Public Sector Pre-Sales Engineer to focus on the design and development of Microsoft information security architecture and to help our customers fully leverage technology investment in their Microsoft Enterprise licensing. The Public Sector Pre-Sales Engineer will advise on Azure and M365 cloud security best practices, support delivery of Microsoft workshops, draft scope, and statement of work (SOW) for Microsoft programmatic functions associated with delivery of professional services of cloud solutions and services. The ideal candidate will partner closely with our sales teams and other business units to drive incremental sales growth by up leveling and creating transformational security strategies for our customers.
Responsibilities

• A deep understanding of Microsoft products and services including M365 and Microsoft Azure
• Meet regularly with potential customers and lead Microsoft workshops
• Establish strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers in client organizations
• Support internal sales teams to execute comprehensive Azure Cloud security architecture strategies, frameworks and reference models that support business needs and objectives in complex customer environments
• Provide pre-sales support and “thought leadership” for the upcoming opportunities
• Create technical roadmaps, project plans, requirements, designs, and implementation plan in Azure Cloud solutions
• Work closely with enterprise architects to identify and mitigate risks, perform security reviews, design top tier security practices, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security offerings
• Identify appropriate technology/data sources and drive the collection of data necessary to effectively evaluate threats
• Analyze threats and current security controls to identify gaps in current defensive posture
• Develop education and mentoring opportunities for more junior consultants
• Willingness and ability to achieve and maintain MSFT technical certifications relevant to the role

Requirements

• Solid foundation across the Microsoft 365 technology stack and Azure security offerings with the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to key partners
• Experience implementing Enterprise Mobility and Security Suite (EM+S), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Microsoft Purview, Azure Information Protection (AIP) and Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
• Experience managing and implementing Azure Key Vault, Azure Security Center, Azure Operations Management Service, Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel
• Experience designing migration of workloads to the cloud including users, endpoints, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams
• Identity & Access Management (IAM), including B2B and B2C cloud design and implementation
• Knowledge and experience with developing Cloud Security Frameworks using industry best practices such as those from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) CSF (Cyber Security Framework) and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI-DSS
• Out of the box thinking and developing solutions to accomplish previously unsolved tasks, while remaining risk and objective focused
• Motivated self-starter who loves to solve challenging problems and feels comfortable working directly with customers and other members of the engineering organization
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, excellent time management skills, and able to effectively prioritize tasks in a fast-paced, high-volume, and evolving work environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred but not required
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience as a Security or Cloud Engineer/Architect in a service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services, or 5 years of secure cloud engineering combined with 5 or more years of traditional data center engineering and architecture
• Preferred Certifications: Microsoft (MS-500, AZ-500, SC-200, MS-100), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certifications

Preferred Competencies

• Open to travel 
• Comfortable with public speaking
• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment to support the needs of rapidly growing businesses
• Ability to balance multiple projects at one time while maintaining attention to detail
• Maintain a positive, solutions-focused attitude
• Ability to use good judgement and keep client information confidential
• Bold, confident & open to feedback 
• Strategic, analytical, collaborative 
• Adaptive problem solver with grit
• Acumen, emotional stability, and high learning agility
• Mission oriented

About BlueVoyant
At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. Accuracy! Actionability! Timeliness! Scalability!
Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.
Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America.
All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Disclaimer: Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of the company’s federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee’s ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon the company’s verification of the employee’s citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting.