Principal Security Assurance Engineering Manager

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Team is looking for a Principal Security Assurance Engineering Manager to help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world, managing a team of highly capable Security professionals, and getting into the technical details of Security Reviews, Threat Models, and Security Architecture themselves too. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus. If this sounds like something you would like to do, we’d love to talk to you!

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

• Managing a set of Security Architects and Reviewers
• 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
• Mentoring others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems
• Planning and managing an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics
• Creating and presenting plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services
• Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) people management.
• 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, designing or developing Software and Services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection.