Senior Security Automation Engineering Manager

Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The team is responsible for designing, building and operating our unified global datacenters; managing the demand planning and capacity utilization of our unified infrastructure; and responsible for all of the operations needed to run the physical infrastructure (including supply chain, hardware, power, security, and workflow teams). We focus on smart growth with an emphasis on automation, data driven engineering, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability.
We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and over 1 million servers. Our portfolio is built and managed by a team of subject matter experts working 24x7x365 to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.
This core infrastructure is a target for cyber criminals, hacktivists, and nation-state adversaries that seek to bring harm to our businesses, customers, and staff. Holding the line against them these threats is the Datacenter Cyber Defense and Industrial Networking team! We are Microsoft's industrial strength security team!
With a focus on safety, resiliency, and recovery the Datacenter Cyber Defense and Industrial Networking team is responsible for fielding and operating our datacenters cyber security systems, controls and processes that protect and defend Microsoft's datacenters operational technologies (OT), industrial scenarios, and other mission critical infrastructures from cyber threats.
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.ResponsibilitiesThe Datacenter Cyber Defense and Industrial networking team is seeking a motivated, talented, and cyber security focused Senior Security Engineer to join our team! This role works collaboratively across a larger engineering team managing the structure, deliverables, timelines, and prioritization for designing, delivering, automating, securing, and providing operational support for critical industrial networking programs, services and projects in existing and future datacenters.
The cloud business is booming, that means datacenter activities and growth is booming! Our datacenters work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year - so our programs and services must too be designed, built, and operated in such a way to support that growth and execution model. You will work within the Cloud Operations and Innovation engineering teams as well as partner across external teams handling datacenter engineering, support teams, design and build teams, and key decision makers across CO+I division.
Partnering closely with the peer engineering organizations your role will be to design and deploy security solutions and manage them in a true DevOps fashion. You will be required to possess deep technical skills in Security and drive projects with heavy reliance on key partnerships with global datacenter operations teams and functions at varying levels of the business, teams responsible for the design and delivery of datacenters, Azure network engineering and architecture teams, and all groups affiliated with Microsoft Datacenters (Business & Property groups).
The candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to speak and present effectively to all levels of business and be willing to jump into any situation to help provide design, support and troubleshoot issues in a 24x7x365 engineering environment. A successful candidate should be able to execute following responsibilities:
A successful Manager in this role is someone who

• Embraces the cultural values of inclusion and belonging and feels empowered to
  • Coach - Works with each person on their team to help them to do their best work and grow. Defines and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity. Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals.
  • Collaborate - Strives to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we're working with and work towards a better-together collaborative solution.
• Successfully leads and grows a team of engineers to deliver high business impact projects on-time with high quality.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site management.
• Hires and retains top talent.
• Fosters a healthy and inclusive team environment.
• Has strong Coding, Design and Test skills.
• Has strong collaboration skills and stellar project management skills. Should be able to clearly define scope of work in the immediate problem space and define crisp accountabilities between teams.
• Successfully leads & manages a team that builds full-stack services to automate security operations, investigation & response work
• Plan long-term security automation service development & project work
• Collaborate with internal partner security teams to define shared objectives & goals
• Support automation team members with guidance on writing secure code & creating secure & fault-tolerant infrastructure design

QualificationsKnowledge, experience, and skills required:

• 1+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• 5+ years of experience in development and design at scale using modern programming languages (C#, JavaScript, or Python)
• 2+ years of experience working on cloud application development and microservice architecture (Azure, AWS, or other cloud platform) and in application security, or in developing secure software & infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience working with relational database platforms (MS SQL Server, MySQL, etc.)
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written

Preferred, not required:

• Experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, SIEM, XDR and Threat Intelligence
• Experience with cyber security technologies, protocols, applications
• Integration of platforms into SIEM, XDR, SOAR and/or API's
• Understanding of security frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, etc.)
• Prior experience as a SOC/IR analyst or engineer
• Experience with building & deploying full-stack software services and experiences
• Experience with creating & maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile software development
• Systemic problem-solving approach

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 .
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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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