Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity
About the role
The Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity is responsible for providing technical leadership and accountability across customer cybersecurity engagements. This role focuses on ensuring secure architecture, consistent delivery quality, resource coordination, and the growth of team capabilities. The position involves reviewing and approving technical designs, overseeing delivery across multiple projects, conducting reviews and lessons-learned sessions, and acting as the primary technical escalation point. The Associate Tech Lead also builds relationships with customer IT leaders and leads technical discovery and solution strategy for complex cybersecurity opportunities. Candidates should have a strong background in cybersecurity, particularly within Microsoft Security environments, and experience in technical leadership and project delivery.
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Typically, 5-8 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including substantial hands-on delivery within Microsoft Security environments.
- At least 2 years of demonstrated responsibility for technical leadership, architecture review, workstream leadership, mentoring, or multi-engagement coordination.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise cybersecurity projects in a Microsoft Partner, MSSP, consulting, or regulated-industry environment.
- Demonstrated experience handling technical escalations, customer stakeholders, delivery risk, and quality assurance.
- Automation and infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Bicep/ARM, Terraform, Logic Apps, and related tooling.
- Security architecture, threat modelling, incident response, detection engineering, risk assessment, compliance mapping, and operational readiness.
- pre-sales skills, including requirement gathering, solution design and technical presentations.
- Ability to work independently and deliver requirements on time.
- Ability to work closely with clients, to identify their problems and propose suitable solutions.
- Ability to work with support teams guides them and improve their processes and technical capability.
Nice to have
- Postgraduate qualification in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Technology Management, or Business Administration is an advantage.
- All relevant Microsoft certifications are highly desirable.
Technologies
- Azure
- Bicep
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure as Code
- PowerShell
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Terraform
- Threat Hunting
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