Senior Security Assurance Program Manager - CTJ - Top Secret

Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services and is expanding our footprint in the Government space with our mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation and security to government customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, in a consistent hybrid environment designed for flexibility and scale. Azure Government enables innovation with deeply integrated cloud services, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provides the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage intelligent solutions. Government customers can leverage the vast network of Microsoft’s technology partners and diverse marketplace offerings, to advance their mission and serve their citizens. 

Our Azure Air Gap and Sovereign Foundation team is seeking a talented, highly motivated individual to join us as a Senior Security Assurance Program Manager, to drive a secure cloud architecture that will improve margin, quality, and drive innovation for government customers. This individual will work closely with software engineering peers, operations, and Azure Leadership to dig into technical details and align stakeholders to architect new clouds.  This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for Azure.  In this role, you will drive complex engagements that encompass multiple dimensions including, technical, financial, compliance, regulatory and legal concerns. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Identify and work toward resolution from development to research of high value projects (deliverables: assessment products, training, and mitigation efforts with teams)
• Cyber Security Incident Analysis and research.
• Build a program for hardware supply chain analysis and reporting.
• Analyze the cyber activities on anomalies employees might come across.
• Plan and manage Monthly Awareness meeting with all stakeholders and leadership.
• Create Security Analysis Reports that contain Comprehensive assessments of security incidents, highlighting potential intelligence involvement and sophisticated cyber threats.
• Create and manage Threat Intelligence Briefs which contain Regular updates on emerging threats, based on real-time data analysis and intelligence gathering.
• Create and manage a Best Practices Guide containing strategies and tactics for mitigating identified threats.
• Drive and effectively manage projects with leadership visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams for personnel metrics, tooling and collaboration.
• Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and other Microsoft teams to translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to unblock Azure growth.
• Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
• Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers. 
• Demonstrated people management and leadership, Operational Control (operating and budgeted expense). He/she will need to work with and motivate others, have a high-level team integration skill.  The successful candidate will possess excellent communication and presentation skills as well as can interface effectively with employees and customers of all levels.
• Drive cross functional team orchestration for complex delivery of features against the service/product roadmap.  Develop, track, coordinate, and manage risk of end-to-end project delivery schedules at tactical and executive levels.  Understand critical path and dependencies to hold stakeholders accountable adjusting as needed to ensure successful project delivery. 
• Identify, collect, and summarize performance metrics to derive deep insights to lead to course corrections and optimizations.  Leverage customer listening, telemetry, root cause analysis to form hypothesis and make data drive recommendatio