Security Operations Engineering Manager - CTJ - Poly

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.

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is looking for a Senior Security Operations Manager for our US Government Cloud who will focus on leading a team that will be responsible for detection, investigation, and response.  You will be a part of defending our customer base focused on identifying new attacks, coordinating large scale response and investigating issues.    

MSRC seeks motivated, experienced security professionals to join our team. There are few places in Microsoft that have as much direct impact on as many customers as the Microsoft Security Response Center’s SOC and Incident Response Teams. The SOC within the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is the front line that defends our customers that use Microsoft's Cloud platform and online services. This people manager position requires the candidate to lead a highly experienced team of analysts, investigators, and forensics specialists integrating closely with the US Government and teams across Microsoft's Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC).  

The successful candidate will be passionate about strengthening our cloud defenses and defending customers from emerging security threats. If you are passionate about protecting customers, then this opportunity may be for you. We are a fast-paced team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow.  

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

In this role you will work to help identify risk to us and our customers, respond to and investigate the issues, partner on solutions to better prevent, detect, and respond in the future.   These responsibilities include: 

• Manage a team of security engineers, investigators, and responders across multiple physical locations 
• Develop clear OKR's for the business during planning cycles
• Deliver high quality, accurate and timely security investigations and response aligned with business health metrics / key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Deliver business insights and drive program improvements
• Drive engineering requirements to improve security posture
• Transform the business to scale with the growth in the Microsoft Cloud
• Partner across the company to drive holistic and comprehensive fixes for systemic issues
• Build customer trust by interfacing directly with external C-Level executives and showcasing our Cloud security strategies and offerings
• Embody our culture and