New 
Principal Security Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Jan 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Security is looking for highly motivated candidates that can thrive in a non-traditional, agile environment at the cutting-edge of the security market. Our group is responsible for providing organizations with the best security solution for their cloud environment, allowing for visibility, governance, and protection over their infrastructure, platforms, and application solutions. We are looking for a Principal Security Engineering Manager to join and lead a fast-paced team solving complex security and systems focused problems in the sovereign cloud security space. You will work closely with a distributed engineering team, product management, CXP, and customers in addition to the central Azure organization leveraging the best platforms that Microsoft has to offer. The Security Engineer team will play a key role driving efforts to champion security during the buildout of Microsoft's international sovereign cloud environments. This includes working with engineering teams throughout Microsoft to identify and address security vulnerabilities and compliance issues, architect and design information security solutions, advise on decisions impacting security, and educating peers about security best practices. The selected person will leverage their broad Security experience to lead the team that designs and implements solutions to the security challenges in the Azure environment. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLead, mentor, and train a team of 4-7 individuals to implement and uphold security engineering principlesConduct targeted security reviews and threat models to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities and weaknessesConduct emerging Threat and Vulnerability ResearchIdentify and evaluate new areas for research, perform analysis into emerging threats, including proactive security research on the technologies that Azure and our customers utilize and depend onCreate a learning and sharing environment along with drive to improve the existing state.Lead planning and execution with internal engineering teams, business partners and technical leaders across the divisionProactive identification and reduction of Security issues through design, testing, and implementation of custom tools / solutionsAbility to work as part of an on-call rotation and to contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneouslyEmbody our culture and values | |