Job Description

Security Specialist

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada



Date posted

Jul 14, 2025

Job number

1842639

Work site

Up to 50% work from home

Travel

0-25

%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Sales

Discipline

Solution Area Specialists

Employment type

Full-Time

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Overview

Security has never been more top of mind for governments and businesses, and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping nations and citizens secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. As the largest security company in the world, we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. Following a year of incredible success, we are excited to be expanding our team with ambitious, diversified, and driven new talent, eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime. We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn.

In the Security Specialists team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end security thought leadership, driving significant customer value, and enabling transformational customer outcomes. The Specialist seller works closely with customers to identify their cybersecurity needs and recommend the best solutions from Microsoft's suite of products and services. As a Security Specialist you will build secure digital transformation strategies with customers, collaborating with different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable them to be more secure. You will lead consultative customer conversations and collaborate on the planning, orchestration, and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. This opportunity will allow you to learn and accelerate your career growth, hone your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepen your end-to-end security expertise.


As a Security Specialist you will be partnering with Enterprise Commercial customers on their security journey. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your sales career growth, evolve your selling skills by working with our top customers.


We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible security sales professional who has experienced selling cybersecurity solutions across threat protection, secure multi-cloud, and compliance to join our global team of Security Specialists. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.


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

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of enterprise customer level experience with cloud, security technologies (Identity and Access Management, Threat protection, Data protection, Cloud Security), and industry standards

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs):

Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience. 6+ years solution or services sales experience.


Solution Area Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $142,800 - CAD $214,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here: Canada pay information | Microsoft Careers
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 19, 2025.###

Responsibilities

Sales Execution: Introduces how to enable secure digital transformation across workloads and collaborates with a virtual team to assess customer needs and proactively build an external stakeholder mapping to implement strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, drive consumption and licensing transactions to grow business with current and new customers. Scaling and Collaboration: Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution on end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. Technical Expertise: Leads end-to-end Security conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas, and evaluates opportunities to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal. + Exhibits outstanding operational excellence - including monthly/quarterly forecasting, building healthy pipeline, CRM entry and hygiene, opportunity management and virtual team orchestration.
+ Experience driving new sales and new customers using innovative approaches, leveraging joint partnership events, social selling (LinkedIn) and networking.
+ Enterprise customer level experience with cloud, security technologies (Identity and Access Management, Threat protection, Data protection, Cloud Security), and industry standards recommended
Sales Excellence: Leads and plans for strategic accounts in the assigned territory, does business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manages the End-to-End Security business across the assigned territory. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry. Sales and Technology: + Exceed sales goals in an assigned sales territory
+ Demonstrated sales and partner management experience
+ Competes to win new market share
+ Significant experience delivering persuasive presentations to business decision makers
Other + Embody our culture and values


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
?Industry leading healthcare
?Educational resources
?Discounts on products and services
?Savings and investments
?Maternity and paternity leave
?Generous time away
?Giving programs
?Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.