Job Description

Are you interested in securing products used by 1 billion customers every day? The Security Assurance and Vulnerability research team's charter is to ensure Windows, IoT, and Cloud Platforms are shipped securely. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. You can help us to achieve our mission.

The Technical Security Program Manager will drive security strategy, customer promises, competitive approach, and execution for large cross-functional Windows, IoT, and Cloud initiatives. You will work with a world-class team of security engineers, penetration testers, product owners, and marketing professionals to ensure critical new products are secured from the ground up with secure architecture, code, and product controls baked in.

You will use your strong technical background, customer empathy, market data and collaboration skills to drive appropriate tradeoffs, ensuring customers are safe and that we ship products that meet business and technology objectives.

The candidate will have a good mix of technical security acumen, product and program management experience, and be data driven. You should be passionate about security and have the ability to collaborate cross-functionally to understand different points of view, influence, and drive to the right solutions. The ideal candidate will be able to work with security engineers and Product Developers to drive architecture and products strategy, design specs that balance security and product needs, and deliver on these plans.

* Own the security architecture, strategy, execution, and communication of critical new Azure Edge and Platform (E+P) products
* Provide technical security expertise on architecture, attacker trends, mitigations, security design, and vulnerability research.
* Communicate progress and risks, manage stakeholders, and drive a mature release management process
* Lead cross-functional engagement to deliver on technical strategy
* Drive clear accountability, timelines, and scorecards to deliver on security priorities

Required Qualifications:

* 5+ years of computer security industry experience utilizing reverse engineering and knowledge of security/threat landscape.
* 5+ years of development skills with C, C++, C or scripting languages (Python/PowerShell)

Preferred Qualifications:

* Reverse Engineering skills: familiar with debuggers, disassemblers, network protocols, file formats, sandboxes, hardware/firmware internals, software communication mechanisms
* Strong knowledge of Windows operating system internals and modern security problems
* Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security or detection improvements.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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