Senior Security Engineering Manager

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 lifechanging 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 Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) and drive innovative strategies in threat detection, response, and automation. You'll manage major incident volumes, optimize 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

• Responsible for orchestrating response by mobilizing the right teams and ensuring clear roles and responsibilities.
• Focus is on minimizing impact, maintaining timeline, and speeding up recovery by centralizing decision-making and resource allocation during critical events.
• Manages internal and coordination with external communication partners, ensuring stakeholders, from executive leadership to technical teams, receive the necessary information to make informed decisions.
• Maintains continuous, streamlined communication strategy for stakeholders
• Manages ongoing surveillance of operational performance by tracking key metrics and monitors incident response progress.
• Ensures that detection and response efforts are aligned with organizational objectives, offering oversight to optimize security operations and drive accountability.
• Continuously seek improvements to the incident management process including after-action reviews

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years software industry experience related to technology

OR Master's Degree in Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years software industry experience related to technology

OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years people management experience.
• Track record of successfully managing a technical business group and maintaining consistent growth.
• Recognized as a strategic leader who has the ability to hire, retain and motivate diverse quality talent and provide technical thought leadership.
• Understanding of security technology and its principles with a focus on the cyber threat landscape.
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory landscape related to security and privacy in an international environment.
• Executive presence, ability to influence senior IT and Global Risk leaders, CISO, CTO, CIOs.
• Experience in working with a global cross-functional team and ability to partner with stakeholder teams
• Excellent technical writing and oral communication skills 

Additional Mandatory Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of total Security operations and 5 years of directly managing team.
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud and enterprise security and having sound understanding of investigations and containment in those environments at scale
• 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. 

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