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Cybersecurity Architect

Microsoft


Job Location:

Hyderabad - India

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 6 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

EAG Security helps Microsoft strategic customers solve complex security challenges through modern outcome-led architecture and delivery. The Security Architect is a senior customer-facing technical leader accountable for secure-by-design architectures presales solutioning delivery governance risk management and measurable customer outcomes across Microsoft Security cloud security identity data protection SecOps compliance and AI security.
This role aligns to EAG Securitys AI-first consulting direction with emphasis on reusable IP delivery accelerators technical mastery and global scale through consistent standards architecture quality and customer value realization.



Responsibilities
1. Security Architecture and Technical Leadership
  • Lead secure scalable and outcome-driven architecture across Microsoft Security and adjacent cloud platforms.
  • Translate customer business regulatory and technology needs into pragmatic security roadmaps and solution designs.
  • Identify architectural risks control gaps dependencies and delivery blockers; propose mitigations and alternate controls.
  • Guide teams through ambiguity by clarifying options trade-offs standards and next-step decisions.
2. Customer Engagement and Executive Advisory
  • Act as a trusted advisor to customer security leaders including CISOs enterprise architects and SecOps leaders.
  • Lead architecture workshops solution reviews executive briefings and steering conversations.
  • Connect Microsoft Security capabilities to business outcomes such as risk reduction resilience compliance operational efficiency and secure innovation.
3. Presales Deal Shaping and Governance
  • Partner with sales solution architects pursuit teams and delivery leaders to shape qualified security opportunities.
  • Support discovery qualification estimation resource planning SOW inputs and solution strategy.
  • Review deal constructs for feasibility staffing alignment delivery readiness architecture quality and risk.
  • Contribute to EAG Security deal governance technical reviews presales triage and follow-on opportunity identification.
4. Delivery Excellence and AI-First Innovation
  • Provide architectural oversight during implementation through checkpoint reviews risk reviews and escalation support.
  • Embed AI-first and automation-led delivery practices to improve quality scale and speed of delivery.
  • Reuse and contribute to EAG Security delivery IP accelerators reference architectures and implementation patterns.
  • Support adoption of EAG Security agents and AI security capabilities where relevant to customer context.


Qualifications
  • Deep understanding of enterprise security architecture information security practices governance and risk management.
  • Hands-on architecture depth in Microsoft Security: Defender Sentinel Entra ID Purview Defender for Cloud Intune security Security Copilot and related services.
  • Architecture experience across Azure and preferably multi-cloud environments including AWS and GCP.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF ISO 27001 and common regulatory expectations.
  • Experience with threat modeling secure design reviews vulnerability management penetration testing DevSecOps and control validation.
  • Ability to govern Azure and M365 security posture data flows endpoint hardening API/token security Purview controls PII/PCI handling and Zero Trust architecture.
  • Executive communication and CISO-level advisory skills with the ability to simplify complex security trade-offs.
  • Strong consultative presales solution-shaping and stakeholder management experience.
  • Ability to lead difficult technical conversations across stakeholders with different levels of security maturity.
  • Proven collaboration across sales delivery customer success engineering support partners and global EAG stakeholders.
  • Mentoring mindset with ability to build team capability through readiness shadowing knowledge sharing and reusable assets.

    Required Qualifications-

    Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Cybersecurity or related field or equivalent experience. Recommended 10 years of relevant cybersecurity cloud security architecture or consulting experience with exposure to complex customer engagements.
    Preferred -

    CISSP strongly preferred. Additional certifications such as CISM CCSP CCSK AZ-500 SC-100 SC-200 SC-300 SC-400 or equivalent cloud/security certifications. Experience with AI-first or automation-led security delivery models is valuable.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



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