Security represents the most critical priority for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Microsoft Security organization aspires to make the world a safer place for all and accelerates Microsoft’s mission 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, inspiring professional 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 seeking a Senior Security Technical Program Manager to join the M365 Detect and Respond team, which is focused on securing the tools and processes that support the M365 cloud and associated technologies and organizations. As a Senior Security Technical Program Manager, you will have an impact on cloud architecture, tooling, and processes to secure the way in which our most important cloud offerings are operationalized. Our culture is centered on prioritizing technical rigor, embracing huge challenges, and emphasizing deep customer understanding. This position requires a passion for technology, world-class engineering, data-informed decision-making, and cross-org collaboration.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Driving secure engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations.

• Helping guide engineering teams across Microsoft on security best practices.

• Collaborating with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks.

• Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI.

• Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics.

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years’ experience in designing, developing, shipping, and running software and services

• OR equivalent experience. 

• 2+ years of experience in cross-group, cross-functional engineering roles.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years’ experience in designing, developing, shipping, and running software and services

• OR equivalent experience. 

• 6+ years of experience in cross-group, cross-functional engineering roles.

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear, concise messaging and to develop execution plans for moving through that complexity to durable technical solutions.

• In-depth familiarity with Azure cloud concepts, including tenancy, guesting, VDI, RAILs, and VPN.

• Ability to quickly prototype through the standing up of simple cloud topologies and coding in your language of choice.

• Thorough understanding of cloud and security concepts such as tenancy, guesting, pentesting, authn, authz, JIT, and JIA.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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