Security Operations Engineering Manager

Microsoft is committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment and is seeking a Security Operations Engineering Manager. In this role, you will manage a team that implements and operates cybersecurity controls to protect Microsoft datacenter infrastructure and lead efforts in advancing industrial network cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
• Direct team to address identified security strategy, ensuring proper team resources are available to accomplish goals, and coordinate with partner teams to remediate control failures
• Drive team to implement and manage new automation for greater efficiency in security operations while ensuring measurable business impact and solutions across the organization
• Escalate potential gaps in security policy, provide guidance on current security policies, recommend changes, and drive adoption for new policies
• Guide team to meet threat mitigation service levels with internal and external partners and manage relationships with third-party account management
• Support end to end security breach protocol by guiding team in responding, investigating, communicating with stakeholders, resolving, and running post-mortem analysis for any security breaches. Coordinate with partner teams to secure data and maintain chain of custody
• Guide team to develop monitoring and detection capabilities to identify threats and malicious activity, ensuring adequate resources for mitigation, while also collaborating with internal and external partners to leverage and evangelize best practices
• Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years 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 Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years 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 equivalent experience
• 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
• 7+ years of experience in cyber security, and anomaly detection 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])
• 1+ year(s) leading multi-disciplinary team
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification