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Here, consultants and technologists operate on the edge of innovation-supported by a culture that values craftsmanship, open collaboration, and technical expertise. If you’re looking for a place where you can innovate, solve complex problems, and build solutions that make a measurable impact, join us.\nAbout the Role\nThe Security Coach is a client-facing security advisor responsible for helping customers improve their security posture through recurring coaching, tactical deep-dives, roadmap planning, and practical guidance. In this role, you will partner closely with customers, Quisitive MDR/SecOps teams, Customer Success, and technical consultants to translate security insights, Microsoft telemetry, compliance requirements, and threat trends into clear, actionable recommendations.\nThis role supports Quisitive's Spyglass managed security service offering by helping customers understand their current security state, prioritize improvements, and drive adoption of Microsoft security capabilities in a way that aligns with their business goals, risk profile, licensing, and operational needs.\nAs Microsoft continues to expand AI-powered capabilities across the security and productivity landscape, this role will also help customers understand emerging AI security and governance considerations related to Microsoft Copilot, AI-enabled workloads, and agent-based technologies. While AI security is not the primary focus of the role, the Security Coach will help customers balance innovation, security, compliance, and risk as they adopt these solutions.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead recurring customer security coaching sessions, including tactical reviews, advisement sessions, and executive-level security discussions.\nReview threats, incidents, posture trends, identity risks, compliance insights, and Microsoft security telemetry to identify meaningful areas for improvement.\nTranslate technical findings into clear, business-focused recommendations, roadmaps, and next steps.\nPartner with MDR/SecOps, Customer Success Managers, consultants, and analysts to align customer priorities, risks, workstreams, and communication plans.\nHelp customers improve their understanding of their security environment and the effectiveness of their tools, processes, and controls.\nReview and provide guidance across Microsoft security capabilities, including Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, email security, insider risk, and cloud app governance.\nProvide guidance on emerging AI security and governance practices related to Microsoft Copilot, AI-powered workloads, and agent-based technologies.\nBuild and maintain customer-specific security roadmaps tied to licensing, budget, risk priorities, compliance drivers, and measurable outcomes.\nConduct security architecture and adoption planning to help customers optimize the value of their Microsoft tools and licenses.\nAnalyze security trends and make recommendations related to external and internal threats, including malware, identity-based risk, data leakage, attack surface reduction, and emerging AI-related security risks.\nPrepare advisement materials, tactical decks, quarterly executive summaries, and customer-facing recommendations using evidence from dashboards, analytics tools, KQL queries, reports, and telemetry trends.\nGuide client conversations toward additional security enhancements, roadmap initiatives, and continuous improvement opportunities.\nMonitor customer security issues, escalations, and requests, validating context and converting learnings into repeatable guidance.\nContribute to playbooks, best practices, and coaching materials while mentoring supporting consultants or analysts as needed.\nDevelop foundational knowledge of Microsoft Agent 365 and related agent governance capabilities to support future customer discussions, assessments, and service offerings.\nWhat You'll Bring\n8+ years of cybersecurity, cloud security, managed security services, or related technical advisory experience.\nStrong client-facing consulting experience. 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You will help customers move from insight to action by turning telemetry, threat trends, compliance needs, and technical findings into practical steps that improve security outcomes over time.\nThis is a role for someone who enjoys being both strategic and hands-on, someone who can lead customer conversations, interpret complex security data, build trust with stakeholders, and help customers make meaningful progress in protecting their business.\nAs our customers increasingly adopt Microsoft Copilot, AI-powered workloads, and agent-based technologies, you will also help them navigate emerging security and governance considerations while building your expertise in Microsoft Agent 365 and the evolving AI security landscape.\nAbout Quisitive\nWith significant growth since 2016, Quisitiveis rapidly progressing our vision of becoming the leading global Microsoft partner as we continue to expand across the United States, Canada and India. 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