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 Identity and Access Management (IAM) Protect team is looking for a a Senior Security Technical Program Manager. You will play a pivotal role in securing Microsoft's infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the safety and integrity of some of Microsoft's and the world’s most critical assets. Your focus will be on automating the security of Azure tenants at scale and ensuring the security of data flows across different environments and boundaries.
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
- Automating Security Management: Develop and implement automated solutions to secure Azure tenants, ensuring robust protection measures are in place across the board.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Define and utilize data to inform and drive security decisions, ensuring that all actions are based on accurate and reliable information.
- Securing Identity Boundaries: Understand and investigate cross Entra tenant scenarios to define and enforce security policies.
- Infrastructure Protection: Work on securing critical infrastructure components, with a focus on Microsoft Entra technologies.
- Technical Expertise: Leverage deep technical knowledge of Active Directory and Entra to enhance security measures and protocols.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers, developers, and other program managers, to ensure cohesive and comprehensive security strategies.
Other
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or cyber security
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or cyber security
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- Experience in Active Directory, Azure Active Directory/Entra or other Directory/Identity platforms.
- Experience in managing identity and authentication.
- Familiarity with KQL and other querying languages.
- Experience in automating security processes and configurations at scale, particularly for Entra configurations.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve security goals.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, GIAC, etc.
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/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 31, 2024.
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