Principal Security Engineering Manager

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. Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Security is looking for highly motivated candidates that can thrive in a non-traditional, agile environment at the cutting-edge of the security market. Our group is responsible for providing organizations with the best security solution for their cloud environment, allowing for visibility, governance, and protection over their infrastructure, platforms, and application solutions.

We are looking for a Principal Security Engineering Manager to join and lead a fast-paced team solving complex security and systems focused problems in the sovereign cloud security space. You will work closely with a distributed engineering team, product management, CXP, and customers in addition to the central Azure organization leveraging the best platforms that Microsoft has to offer. The Security Engineer team will play a key role driving efforts to champion security during the buildout of Microsoft’s international sovereign cloud environments. This includes working with engineering teams throughout Microsoft to identify and address security vulnerabilities and compliance issues, architect and design information security solutions, advise on decisions impacting security, and educating peers about security best practices. The selected person will leverage their broad Security experience to lead the team that designs and implements solutions to the security challenges in the Azure environment.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
• • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) people management.
• 5+ years experience with Cyber Security and/or operating in a hyper-scale cloud environment
• 2+ years leadership experience
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Fabric architecture

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

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information.  To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Secure Software Development practices
• 5+ years experience with implementing security controls and process for hyper-scale computing platforms
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CASP+ (Comp TIA+ Advanced Security Practitioner), or similar certifications
  

Security Assurance M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 for the role until February 4^th 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Lead, mentor, and train a team of 4-7 individuals to implement and uphold security engineering principles
• Conduct targeted security reviews and threat models to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities and weaknesses
• Conduct emerging Threat and Vulnerability Research
• Identify and evaluate new areas for research, perform analysis into emerging threats, including proactive security research on the technologies that Azure and our customers utilize and depend on
• Create a learning and sharing environment along with drive to improve the existing state.
• Lead planning and execution with internal engineering teams, business partners and technical leaders across the division
• Proactive identification and reduction of Security issues through design, testing, and implementation of custom tools / solutions
• Ability to work as part of an on-call rotation and to contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously
• Embody our culture and values