{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"22d6d2af34515d7737a3bb51","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/22d6d2af34515d7737a3bb51","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/22d6d2af34515d7737a3bb51","title":"Senior Security Technical Program Manager - CTJ - POLY","description":"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.\n\nDo you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with today in hosting petabytes of business-critical customer data? We’re looking for a Security Technical Program Manager with the right mix of technical depth, engineering background, on-line services experience, and collaboration skills to help grow and protect Office 365 cloud services.\n\nMicrosoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients. Our customers depend on our services to achieve success in their organizations, whether it be a Fortune 100, small business, non-profit, or educational institution. You pass by dozens of our customers on your drive to work every day! Our customers trust us with their most critical data, and we honor that trust with continuous investment and improvement in the security of our services.\n\nAs a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will work closely with our engineering teams to make sure that our backend security tech and operations scale as the service grows and expands into new environments. You’ll also work with our customers with specialized security requirements to identify new features our infrastructure security needs to meet, and work with our engineering teams to get those features built. And throughout the process, you’ll continually seek to understand and analyze new and emerging threats that could impact our service infrastructure and build mitigations to protect against those threats.\n\nMicrosoft’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.\n\nIn alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.\nResponsibilities\nAnalyze potential security issues and develop investigation and resolution plans\nFacilitate implementation of established plans and procedures\nCommunicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in-writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner\nRapidly react to changing situations and develop new plans based on recent discoveries\nDrive enhancements at every level of the OSI model to improve detection, response, and remediation\nCoordinate with internal and external business partners and security teams at a deeply technical level\nWork with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure security products and operations can scale as Microsoft 365 infrastructure grows\nDrive service owners within Microsoft 365 to onboard their infrastructure to security products and operations\nSocialize and drive alignment about upcoming changes and requirements throughout the Microsoft 365 organizations\nWork with Microsoft 365 customers to understand specialized security requirements for service infrastructure, and work with engineering teams to build those features into service infrastructure\nRepresent security controls met by Microsoft 365 services in audits\nAny other reasonable activity directed by management\nQualifications\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development\nOR equivalent experience.\n2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\n3+ years of hands-on experience in security investigations, threat detection & analysis, security program management, and/or incident response.\nOther Requirements:\nSecurity Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:\nThe successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with a polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.\nClearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nCitizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience working with the US Government or US Department of Defense\nExperience with cloud-hosted services, web-based applications, and server/service management features\nDemonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management\nAn ability to work well under pressure while maintaining a professional image and approach.\nCommunication skills both written and verbal\nAwareness of modern security related subjects and trends such as threat hunting and modeling, digital forensics, reverse engineering, phishing, and penetration testing.\nAbility to work collaboratively with engineering teams to drive architectural changes that improve the stability and security of each environment.\nDemonstrated success in dealing with ambiguity and problem definition under timeline constraints.\nComprehension of security trends and emerging threats to calculate risk and drive proper courses of action towards incident remediation.\nTechnical 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.\n\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\n\nMicrosoft will accept applications for the role until November 1, 2024.\n\n#MSFTSecurity #M365 #SHPE24MSFT\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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We’re looking for a Security Technical Program Manager with the right mix of technical depth, engineering background, on-line services experience, and collaboration skills to help grow and protect Office 365 cloud services.\n\nMicrosoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients. Our customers depend on our services to achieve success in their organizations, whether it be a Fortune 100, small business, non-profit, or educational institution. You pass by dozens of our customers on your drive to work every day! Our customers trust us with their most critical data, and we honor that trust with continuous investment and improvement in the security of our services.\n\nAs a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will work closely with our engineering teams to make sure that our backend security tech and operations scale as the service grows and expands into new environments. You’ll also work with our customers with specialized security requirements to identify new features our infrastructure security needs to meet, and work with our engineering teams to get those features built. And throughout the process, you’ll continually seek to understand and analyze new and emerging threats that could impact our service infrastructure and build mitigations to protect against those threats.\n\nMicrosoft’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.\n\nIn alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.\nResponsibilities\nAnalyze potential security issues and develop investigation and resolution plans\nFacilitate implementation of established plans and procedures\nCommunicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in-writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner\nRapidly react to changing situations and develop new plans based on recent discoveries\nDrive enhancements at every level of the OSI model to improve detection, response, and remediation\nCoordinate with internal and external business partners and security teams at a deeply technical level\nWork with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure security products and operations can scale as Microsoft 365 infrastructure grows\nDrive service owners within Microsoft 365 to onboard their infrastructure to security products and operations\nSocialize and drive alignment about upcoming changes and requirements throughout the Microsoft 365 organizations\nWork with Microsoft 365 customers to understand specialized security requirements for service infrastructure, and work with engineering teams to build those features into service infrastructure\nRepresent security controls met by Microsoft 365 services in audits\nAny other reasonable activity directed by management\nQualifications\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development\nOR equivalent experience.\n2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\n3+ years of hands-on experience in security investigations, threat detection & analysis, security program management, and/or incident response.\nOther Requirements:\nSecurity Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:\nThe successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with a polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.\nClearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nCitizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience working with the US Government or US Department of Defense\nExperience with cloud-hosted services, web-based applications, and server/service management features\nDemonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management\nAn ability to work well under pressure while maintaining a professional image and approach.\nCommunication skills both written and verbal\nAwareness of modern security related subjects and trends such as threat hunting and modeling, digital forensics, reverse engineering, phishing, and penetration testing.\nAbility to work collaboratively with engineering teams to drive architectural changes that improve the stability and security of each environment.\nDemonstrated success in dealing with ambiguity and problem definition under timeline constraints.\nComprehension of security trends and emerging threats to calculate risk and drive proper courses of action towards incident remediation.\nTechnical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. 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