Principal Security Operations Engineering Manager
Job Location:
Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsofts 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 doing so we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Team Overview: The Azure Security Operations team is responsible for helping protect some of the worlds most critical cloud services and platforms. We bring together security engineering incident response data analytics automation and AI-driven innovation to identify emerging threats drive rapid response and continuously strengthen Azures security posture. Our team operates at hyperscale partnering across engineering and security organizations to solve complex challenges improve resilience and ensure customers can trust the services they rely on every day. If you are passionate about cybersecurity enjoy solving high-impact problems and want to help shape the future of cloud defense youll find an unparalleled opportunity to make a difference on our team.
We are looking for a Principal Security Operations Engineering Manager to join the team!
Role Overview: As the leader of our Incident Response function you will play a critical role in defending Microsofts cloud environment against emerging threats and helping shape the future of cybersecurity operations. You will investigate complex security events lead cross-functional response efforts and develop innovative solutions that improve detection response and resilience. This is a rare opportunity to combine hands-on technical depth with strategic influence working alongside some of the industrys leading security professionals to solve problems that matter at global scale. If you thrive in fast-paced environments are energized by continuous learning and want your work to have visible impact wed love to hear from you.
Microsofts 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
People Management:
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling coaching and caring.
- Lead a team responsible for protecting Microsofts cloud ecosystem through world-class incident response threat investigation and security operations capabilities.
- Drive strategic investments that improve Microsofts ability to detect respond to and recover from sophisticated security threats at scale.
- Partner across engineering product and security organizations to solve complex security challenges and deliver durable defense-in-depth solutions.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence through data-driven decision making automation AI innovation and continuous improvement.
- Represent the organization with senior leadership communicating security risk operational health and strategic priorities to executive stakeholders.
- Attract develop and retain exceptional security talent while building an inclusive high-performing team that delivers measurable impact for Microsoft and its customers.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 3 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat modeling cyber security anomaly detection Security Operations Center (SOC) detection threat analytics security incident and event management (SIEM) information technology (IT) or operations incident response
- OR Masters Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 4 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat modeling cyber security anomaly detection Security Operations Center (SOC) detection threat analytics security incident and event management (SIEM) information technology (IT) or operations incident response
- OR Bachelors Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 6 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat modeling cyber security anomaly detection Security Operations Center (SOC) detection threat analytics security incident and event management (SIEM) information technology (IT) or operations incident response
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1 year(s) people management experience.
- 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:
- Doctorate in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 5 years experience in software development lifecycle large scale computing threat modeling cyber security or anomaly detection
- OR Masters Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 8 years experience in software development lifecycle large scale computing threat modeling cyber security or anomaly detection
- OR Bachelors Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field AND 12 years experience in software development lifecycle large scale computing threat modeling cyber security or anomaly detection
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2 years people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience.
- 1 years experience leading a security function (e.g. Security Operations Center SOC threat and vulnerability management TVM).
- 1 years experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- CISSP CISA CISM SANS OSCP Security
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Security Operations Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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