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Microsoft Corporation National Security Officer in Schiphol, Netherlands
As a National Security Officer, you will lead security and trust conversations as an advisor to both government, tech policy elites, and enterprise customers, with a particular focus on working with national agencies tasked on improving the national cyber resiliency and improving effectiveness during incident response times. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your selling skills, and become adept at deal structuring. This role offers flexible work opportunities, allowing you to work from home up to 50%, but with a strong external engagement and a frequent Microsoft onsite required component.
Responsibilities
As National Security Officer, you will:
Support the country’s security agencies to build the capabilities to be at national level cyber-safety and resiliency, prepare against next-generation attacks, and effectively mitigate current threats.
In partnership with Corporate, External & Legal Affairs, and engineering teams, expand Microsoft's markets by using Microsoft's products to address compliance, security, privacy, and sovereignty requirements in Public Sector, Critical Infrastructure, and regulated industries.
Build and develop effective internal and external platforms to increase the skills to defend against current and next-generation AI cybersecurity threats that countries, governments, regulators, and customers are facing and establish a program which enables Microsoft locally, in partnership with relevant agencies, to effectively respond to national scale security incidents.
Develop and drive the vision and execution of the Microsoft Security strategy and the end-to-end story for the country, in close alignment with the Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector leadership teams and other key collaborators. This includes aligning the overall cybersecurity strategy to the specific requirements of the area/country.
Be a visible external spokesperson capable of delivering a clear message about Microsoft's security vision and capabilities at Microsoft Events, Executive Briefing Center engagements, field visits with key accounts, partner events, and other major industry events worldwide.
Drive Trusted Technology priorities to unblock and expand addressable markets for Microsoft technologies, including key cybersecurity scenarios that create competitive differentiation for adoption of cloud and emerging technologies.
Lead the area's security community to ensure proper messaging and execution of our security strategy and vision. Enable field readiness for security discussions.
Work with key stakeholders in engineering and product groups to share customer feedback/requirements and ensure that our products meet the security needs of our customers.
Lead conversations with government and regulated markets about data protection, privacy, sovereignty, interoperability and security
Support customers in adoption and compliance for AI security and responsible AI
Support customer compliance and implementation efforts related to NIS2 and DORA
Work with stakeholders on requirements and architecture to develop a National Critical Infrastructure
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Excellent Public Speaking skills
Advanced Cybersecurity technical expertise
Strong experience in the NL Public Sector area
CISO or similar type experience
Fluent Dutch speaker
Experience with and understanding of compliance and European regulations such as GDPR, DORA and NIS2
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree or Doctorate Degree in a related field
Certification related to security (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
Proven people/project management experience working with cross-functional teams
Expertise in the area of Responsible AI and AI regulation such as the AI Act and Data Act
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .