Microsoft Practice Associate

“I am hugely excited about my future and the future of Cyber One. I have enjoyed my time here immensely and have learnt a huge amount in a short space of time, year-for-year I've learnt more here than I have at Microsoft and PwC.”

Cyber One is a pure-play Microsoft security partner dedicated to helping enterprises realise the full value of the Microsoft Security portfolio—across Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, Intune, Copilot for Security and more. We combine deep technical expertise with outcome-driven services that accelerate secure cloud adoption, modernise threat protection and simplify compliance.

Job Title:
Microsoft Practice Associate

Location: Predominantly remote, with regular travel to Cyber One offices, customer locations, partner meetings and industry events

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports to: Microsoft Practice Director

This is not a typical early-career role

Most people starting their careers spend years working towards exposure to senior customers, major technology partners, strategic decision-making and the inner workings of a technology business.

This role is different.

We are looking for an exceptional, ambitious individual to work directly alongside Cyber One's Microsoft Practice Director, effectively becoming their professional shadow.

You will be given an unusually broad view of the business from the beginning of your career. You will join customer meetings, technical discussions, executive briefings, presales engagements, innovation sessions, service-development conversations, partner meetings, seminars and industry events.

You won't be expected to know how to do all of this on day one. In fact, we don't expect you to.

Initially, your job is to observe, learn, ask questions, get involved and absorb as much as possible. As your knowledge, experience and confidence develop, you will move from observing these activities to contributing to them, and ultimately to performing many of them yourself, with the Microsoft Practice Director supporting you in the background.

This is an opportunity to learn by being immersed in the role.

• Shadow the Microsoft Practice Director across a broad range of technical, strategic, and customer-facing activities.
• Attend and participate in customer meetings, executive briefings, partner engagements, seminars, webinars, conferences, and industry events.
• Support and progressively contribute to technical presales engagements, customer workshops, and solution discussions.
• Research customers, technologies, industry trends, and emerging market opportunities to support business development activities.
• Assist in understanding customer challenges and translating business requirements into potential technology and cybersecurity solutions.
• Support the preparation of proposals, presentations, Statements of Work (SOWs), and customer-facing documentation.
• Present Cyber One's capabilities, services, and value propositions to customers and prospects as experience develops.
• Develop knowledge and expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365, and emerging Microsoft technologies.
• Participate in service development and innovation initiatives alongside Cyber One's technical specialists and leadership team.
• Research emerging cybersecurity trends, Microsoft technologies, AI advancements, and industry best practices.
• Contribute ideas towards new services, intellectual property, technology capabilities, and business opportunities.
• Support the development of technical thought leadership content, presentations, webinars, and industry speaking engagements.
• Work closely with Microsoft and other…