Microsoft runs on trust, and our trusted cloud was built on the foundational principles of security, privacy, compliance, and transparency. We’re looking for people to help us keep that promise every day. Do you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with? Want to help us protect Microsoft customers and their data from adversaries? We are looking for a Abuse & Fraud Technical Program Manager to help protect our customers and services from those who try to abuse and misuse our services. In this role, you will leverage a mix of data analytics, engineering background, on-line services experience, and collaboration skills to help create automated detection and response systems to protect our cloud services from those who try to abuse them.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager for the Microsoft Centralized Fraud Abuse Risk team (CFAR). In this role you will work closely with other cloud and security experts across Microsoft to investigate abuse of our platform and services, and work with data science team members to apply big data analytic skills to proactively identify attack patterns and automate our detection and response capabilities. You will work to understand how adversaries misuse and abuse our platform and disrupt their activities. We work in a DevOps model within the security business, so we look for someone who has a passion for applying data analytics to scale to millions and millions of users, hosts, and operations. Working as a part of the Centralized Fraud Abuse Risk team (CFAR), you will work to solve issues related to the latest fraud and abuse trends and early warning indicators, as well as help design solutions for emerging threats. CFAR is a fast-paced team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow.

This is a unique opportunity within Microsoft to work in a dynamic team, taking on complex challenges in the business. Come bring your technical data analytics acumen, collaboration, and automation skills to protect customers.

Responsibilities

• Perform investigation on suspected compromised assets and services and analyze log data and other artifacts to determine what occurred.

• Apply big data analytics to identify how to detect adversary attacks and work closely with data science and engineering team to implement detections at scale.

• Participate in- and contribute to- cyber threat intelligence sharing forums and platforms; organize and curate threat intelligence; form macroscopic perspective on adversaries, actors, and campaigns.

• Partner with other teams across Microsoft to ideate, implement, and evolve systems and features to combat abuse.

• Other: Embody our Culture & Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

o OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements as these 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.

• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

o OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

• Experience working in large scale cloud products: Azure, Microsoft 365, or similar competitive products in the industry

• Exposure to security-related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and malware analysis.

• Deeply skilled in with extremely large data sets analytics to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages such as: SQL, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, R, U-SQL, Azure Synapse, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Lake, Python, or PowerBI.

• Experience in creating and improving process automation and tools/systems/API integration, using Python or PowerShell.

Technical 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.

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 September 27, 2024.

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