Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineering Manager to join our organization and lead a high-performing Security Operations Center (SOC) and drive innovative strategies in threat detection, response, and automation.

You'll manage incident volumes, optimize triage processes, and significantly improve response time. This role offers the opportunity to transform incident intelligence into actionable insights, collaborate with product and partner teams to enhance detection capabilities, and lead automation initiatives to reduce manual workloads.

You'll also play a key role in talent management, coaching, and strategic planning, presenting key findings to leadership. This team uses AI/ML technologies allowing you to further enhance threat detection and automate complex security processes, positioning your team to stay ahead of emerging cyber threats. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SOC analysts to ensure consistent monitoring and incident triage.

• Oversee the daily operations of the SOC team, ensuring timely detection and response to security alerts and incidents.

• Ensures strong KRA and KPI management.

• Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide coaching to improve the skills and performance of SOC analysts.

• Foster a collaborative and continuous improvement culture within the team.

Qualifications

• Ensure the timely detection, validation, and triage of security events.

• Coordinate the escalation of potential security incidents to L2/L3 teams for further investigation.

• Maintain clear and effective incident communication channels to ensure smooth handover of escalated issues.

• Collaborate with L2/L3 managers and the SOC Engineering team to improve detection rules, refine use cases, and reduce false positives.

• Develop and enforce SOC operational procedures to ensure consistency in incident triage and escalations.

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks using SOAR tools and streamline alert handling processes.

• Ensure the team adheres to defined SLAs for incident acknowledgment and escalation.

• Regularly review metrics and generate reports on team performance, alert volume, incident resolution, and other KPIs.

• Participate in security reviews, audits, and post-incident analysis to identify lessons learned. Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of total Security operations and 5 years of directly managing SOC team.

• In-depth knowledge of Operating systems (Windows, Linux and MAC OS).

• Knowledge on Network (LAN and WAN) to understand the threat landscape.

• Knowledge on KQL is added advantage.

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) .