Cloud Solution Architect

**Cloud Solution Architect - Security**:
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

+ 3 more locations

Date posted

**Oct 03, 2025**
- Job number

**1884603**
- Work site

**3 days / week in-office**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Customer Success**
- Discipline

**Cloud Solution Architecture**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- In the Small Medium Enterprise & Channel (SME&C) team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Security reporting to the Cloud Solution Architect Manager, you will enable SMC (Small, Medium, and Corporate) customers & Partners to achieve their business outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
- 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.

**Qualifications**:
**Technical Expertise**:
At least 8+ years of experience working directly 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.

**At least 5 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
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Microsoft 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**:

- Active Directory
- Azure Active Directory, Entra ID
- 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 Cloud Apps
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Microsoft Purview: Data loss prevention (DLP), Information Protection, Insider Risk Management, Privileged Access Management, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Compliance: Records Management, Audit / eDiscovery, Data Life Cycle Management
- Microsoft SharePoint
- 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; Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
- Microsoft Defender XDR

**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.

**Experience** Profile**:

- 12+ years of total IT experience, with **minimum**5** years of experience in Infrastructure/Cloud Security** related profile, experience in designing, delivering or managing information security services

**Any of the below certifications**
- Certification (Any one of the certifications - Minimum)
- SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Certification
- SC-200 Security Operations Analyst Associate
- SC-300 Identity and Access Administrator Associate
- SC-400 Information Protection Administrator Associate
- SC-900 Security, Compliance, and Industry Fundamentals
- CISA, CISM, ITIL, CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, CCAK, CIRSC

**Responsibilities**:

- We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cl