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.

In a world teeming with digital threats, regulatory challenges, and complex estates, security stands as the foremost priority for our customers. At Azure Security, we are committed to making the world a safer place for everyone. Join us in our mission to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with end-to-end, simplified solutions that protect them in this ever-evolving digital landscape.

We are looking for a Principal Security PM Architect - Azure Security at Microsoft and play a pivotal role in defining and developing the network security architecture for the Microsoft Cloud. In this role, you will collaborate with the product engineering team and security engineering team, to lead the effort in designing the next generation cloud network protections for both Microsoft and its world-wide customers. You will also partner with other technical experts across-company to ensure the overall cloud platform network design of Azure is sound and secure. The person we are looking for should possess strong network engineering and security expertise at both the physical and SDN network layer, with the willingness to work with complex engineering systems, to collaborate among multiple teams cross-orgs, and to follow the result driven and data driven path to deliver the right outcomes.

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.

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

• Define the security strategy and security design for the cloud network

• Be a subject matter expert, leveraging a broad and current understanding of security to devise new protections and exploit mitigations

• Drive org-wide/company-wide security initiatives

• Collaborate with other stakeholders to improve security and highlight its business value, to land security investments for designing and developing new security mitigations and defenses

• Identify opportunities to strengthen security postures in a wide variety of key services across Azure services, network protocols and architecture

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years experience in security architecture, security engineering, technical product management, and/or risk assessment

• OR equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated experience designing and securing large-scale systems, or equivalent experience.

• Deep understanding and demonstrated experience in network systems and their security designs

Other Requirements:

• 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding and experience of hyper-scale cloud networking

• Effective communication skills, including proposing and reporting to executive leaderships

• Proven ability to influence cross-org stakeholders without direct authority

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent

• Deep understanding of network protocols, firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS).

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 20, 2025.

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