Principal Group Security Assurance Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft’s M365 Security Team is seeking a Principal Group Security Assurance Manager to help scale the team and advance its goal of delivering secure and trusted productivity experiences. The role manages a team of security professionals while also engaging directly with technical work such as security reviews, threat models, and security architecture. It calls for a strong interest in technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision-making, partner engagement, and customer focus.

The role supports the security of Microsoft 365 services and AI platforms and implementations. The manager will help lead the team through AI transformation, strengthen secure engineering practices, guide engineering teams, respond to security incidents, and develop approaches for detecting, preventing, and eliminating security risks. The position also involves managing security and privacy programs and their metrics.

Candidates must meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements. This includes a Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. The position also requires citizenship or status verification because of export-control and government-customer restrictions.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection; OR bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 6+ years of such experience; OR equivalent experience.
• At least 1 year of people management experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
• Provide citizenship or qualifying status documentation for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information; citizenship verification with a valid passport is required, with other applicable documents permitted for lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.
• Citizenship verification is required due to citizenship-based legal restrictions associated with supporting U.S. federal, state, and/or local government agency customers.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or a related field and 8+ years of enterprise experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection; OR bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 12+ years of such enterprise experience; OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of people management and/or informal or indirect team leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams of Security Assurance professionals and guide them through AI transformation.
• Drive understanding and decision-making around security incidents and the Post Incident Review (PIR) process.
• Drive secure engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing Microsoft services, including AI platforms and implementations.
• Guide engineering teams across Microsoft on security best practices.
• Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to define state-of-the-art approaches for detecting, preventing, and eliminating security risks.
• Identify emerging security problems requiring additional focus and contribute to solutions, often using AI.
• Mentor people inside and outside Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems.
• Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics.
• Perform other reasonable activities directed by management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal