Senior Technical 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 Cloud team is seeking Senior Technical 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

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager (PM) to join the Azure Air Gap and Sovereign Foundation Team and help empower customers with highly regulated workloads and critical missions.  Product Management team leads efforts such as designing product architecture and solutions to complex technical needs, identifying trends in product quality and performance to define or change existing features; prioritizing and delivering on the roadmap; managing project schedules and release plans; monitoring product/service performance and driving continuous improvement in quality, profitability, supportability and delivery. In this role, you will also have opportunities to act as technical advisor with customers to evangelize products, solicit feedback, and support field sellers where needed.  In this role you will be responsible for the following types of activities:

• Identify and work to resolution to development, research of high value AEP 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.
• Partner with the National Security Team CI team, MSRC, DSR, CELA and engineering groups on threat reporting
• 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.

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