Senior Security Operations Engineering

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.

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineering Manager to join our organization and lead a high-performing Security Operations Center (SOC) and drive innovative strategies in threat detection, response, and automation. You'll manage incident volumes related to APTs, state sponsored threat actors etc... and optimize triage processes, and significantly improve response time. This role offers the opportunity to transform incident intelligence into actionable insights, collaborate with product and partner teams to enhance detection capabilities, and lead automation initiatives to reduce manual workloads. You'll also play a key role in talent management, coaching, and strategic planning, presenting key findings to leadership.

This team uses AI/ML technologies allowing you to further enhance threat detection and automate complex security processes, positioning your team to stay ahead of emerging cyber threats. 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.

Responsibilities

• Leads and develops a SOC L3 team of 8+ cyber-Security engineers to protect Microsoft from internal and external threats 
• Provides technical insight on the following:   Incident response and management, Threat hunting, Forensics, Malware analysis and Automation.
• Ensures strong KRA and KPI management.
• Provide clarity in scope of work and define accountabilities between teams. 
• Embraces the values of Microsoft through coaching and collaboration.  
• Partnering with peer teams working in similar areas.

Qualifications

• Manage critical stakeholder calls and meetings (including non-business hours) while addressing critical security incidents.
• Possess extensive hands-on knowledge of security concepts including cyber-attacks, techniques, threat vectors, risk management, and incident management.
• Discover potential automation opportunities or insights to enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborate and advise product teams on enhancing Microsoft's first-party security products by offering actionable feedback for improvement.
• Cultivate a positive and inclusive team environment, acting as a mentor and facilitator to develop a world-class cybersecurity team.
• Exceptional operational rigor with real-world experience in SOC operations / Threat hunting / Incident Response.
• Excellent technical writing and oral communication skills.
• Ability to partner with stakeholder teams.
• Systematic problem-solving mindset.

• Minimum 10 years of total Security operations and 5 years of directly managing team.
• In-depth knowledge of Operating systems (Windows, Linux and MAC OS).
• Knowledge on Network (LAN and WAN) to understand the threat landscape.
• Knowledge on KQL is added advantage.

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. 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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