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. Are you passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make a global impact within a cutting-edge market expansion for Azure? Join our team at Microsoft as a Security Technical Program Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding our Sovereign cloud services. This is your chance to work with top-tier security professionals, drive innovative security solutions, and ensure compliance with the highest standards. If you're ready to take on exciting challenges and contribute to the future of secure cloud computing, we want you on our team!
We are seeking a Security Technical Program Manager to support operations and security governance within Sovereign clouds, ensuring compliance with Microsoft's top-tier security standards. You will be part of a driven team focused on developing high-impact security requirements to protect Microsoft Azure services against emerging threats. Ensuring that security controls effectively mitigate risks is essential, and we need a program manager to spearhead these initiatives in Microsoft’s sovereign cloud environments. Your responsibilities include defining, tracking, and implementing a sovereign cloud framework in partnership with key stakeholders. Additionally, you will provide expertise in security by proposing and reviewing processes and compliance measures that address security risks.
The ideal candidate has a thorough understanding of software engineering and operational processes, with an ability to evaluate the ROI of security solutions, ensuring they are relevant, measurable, and effective. Commmunication, organization, and cross-group collaboration skills are crucial. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization globally to achieve more.
We prioritize a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, and accountability. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, promoting a culture where everyone can thrive both at work and beyond. 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.
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
- Understand and analyze security trends and risks for each environment; notify and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure awareness, tracking and driving continuous improvement and prompt risk mitigation working with partner teams across our Azure services.
- Provide continuous improvements to maintain world-class security practices in line with Microsoft’s evolving security controls.
- Assist in defining the program outcomes, prioritizing the most effective security controls, monitoring progress, identifying and eliminating blockers, and implementing continuous security posture improvements.
- Surface insights to the team, leadership, and Microsoft senior leadership team as needed to update, influence, and improve security while reducing engineering friction.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, technical program management, data analysis
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity assurance.
Other Requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience in cybersecurity and program amangement specifically in security governance.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop and execute operational strategies that support sovereign cloud objectives.
- Experience with defining and tracking OKRs and KPIs to measure program performance.
- Communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Customer feedback and data driven.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starter, “getting things done” attitude.
Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 24, 2024.
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