Hybrid Security Specialist

at Syntax

• Job title: Security Specialist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kosice, Slovakia

About the role

• Microsoft Security Specialist role at Syntax focused on delivering Microsoft security workshops and advisory engagements. Collaborating on technology implementation while ensuring customer security success.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Microsoft-funded security workshops (Defender, Sentinel, Purview) including assessments, posture reviews, capability demonstrations, and architectural recommendations.
• Lead customer conversations as a trusted advisor, clearly articulating Microsoft security capabilities, roadmap recommendations, and industry-aligned best practices.
• Engage in pre-sales activities, working with Sales, Solution Architects, and the broader Security Organisation to scope, position, and present Microsoft Security offerings.
• Conduct security environment assessments, including identity posture, endpoint protection maturity, SIEM architecture, information protection requirements, and data governance controls.
• Produce high-quality customer-facing deliverables including findings reports, architecture diagrams, remediation plans, and modernization recommendations.
• Support technical design and deployment activities for Defender, Sentinel, and Purview solutions as part of customer onboarding to Syntax Managed Security Services.
• Assist in implementing security configurations, integrations, and detection content aligned to Microsoft best practices and customer environments.
• Contribute to use case development, analytic rule creation, and integration setup for Microsoft Sentinel.
• Support hands-on Defender for Endpoint and related Defender platform components as part of onboarding to MDR services.
• Collaborate with Security Operations and Security Engineering teams to ensure a cohesive Microsoft Security delivery experience.
• Contribute to the development of internal Microsoft-aligned content, methodologies, and templates used across workshops, pre-sales, and managed services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with Microsoft Security technologies across Defender, Sentinel, or Purview
• Demonstrable experience in delivering customer-facing workshops, assessments, or pre-sales engagements
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, Zero Trust, and Microsoft security architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview Information Protection, DLP, or Compliance
• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently to both technical and leadership-level stakeholders
• Fluency in speaking, presenting and writing in English.
• Additional ability to speak, present and write in German is beneficial.

Benefits

• Flexible working time models, home office
• Attractive benefits, e.g. company pension scheme or various health offers
• A modern environment in which the 'you' is part of it
• Open feedback culture, flat hierarchies and a motivated team
• Individual career planning with continuous training and coaching on the job