Security Operations Engineering Manager
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · DevOps
In short
As a Security Operations Engineering Manager at Microsoft, you will drive organizational strategy and lead a team implementing modern cloud and on-premises cybersecurity controls to defend critical datacenter infrastructure. This role offers opportunities for on-the-job learning in cyber defense, automation, and networking, contributing to Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) division.
Responsibilities
- Model, coach, and care to deliver success through empowerment and accountability.
- Direct team to address security strategy, ensure resources, and coordinate with partner teams to remediate control failures.
- Drive team to implement and manage new automation for efficiency in security operations with measurable business impact.
- Escalate potential gaps in security policy, provide guidance, recommend changes, and drive adoption for new policies.
- Lead network security operations/engineering across firewalls, IDS/IPS, network infrastructure, cloud security, and identity services.
- Ensure platform reliability, policy compliance, telemetry coverage, operational readiness, and timely remediation of security risks.
- Support end-to-end security breach protocol by guiding team in responding, investigating, communicating, resolving, and running post-mortem analysis.
- Coordinate with partner teams to secure data and maintain chain of custody.
- Lead global security operations across Microsoft Sentinel and OT environments, driving 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, automation, and regional coordination.
- Measure detection coverage, service-level attainment, MTTD, and MTTR.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response.
- OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years of experience in the listed areas.
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in cyber security, and anomaly detection and response.
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
- 2+ years people management.
- 1+ year(s) leading a security function (e.g., Security Operations Center [SOC], threat and vulnerability management [TVM], authentication and access management).
- 1+ year(s) leading multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience owning/managing security service to internal or external customers.
- CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification.
Benefits
- Opportunity to gain cyber defense, automation, and networking skills and experiences.
- Flexible work opportunity to work from home partially or fully.
- Focus on personal and professional development, including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.
- Contribute to delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services.
- Work on environmental sustainability and optimization in datacenter design and operations.
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Company
Microsoft
Job Posted
1 month ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
Remote
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral
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