Senior Technical Program Manager - Security Incident Response
Microsoft
Senior Technical Program Manager - Security Incident Response
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
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.
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.
Aligning with Microsoft's mission and the focus of the Microsoft Security organization, this role is an integral part of a larger team dedicated to delivering world-class security operations that contain and evict threat actor activities.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
- 3+ years of experience working in incident response
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:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience working in cybersecurity fields like Security Response, Assurance, Security Operations, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field
- Hands-on experience with incident response in Azure or Microsoft 365
- Proficient with Kusto data query languages
- Ability to work under pressure, structure unstructured problems and provide clarity where ambiguity exists
- Ability to operate with autonomy, influence others & Bias for action
Security Operations Engineering 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 April 17, 2025.
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Responsibilities
Incident Commander
- Incident commander focused on containment and eviction for large or complex security incidents.
- Leads incident stakeholders including security architects, service engineers, investigators, and domain specific security engineering teams.
- Drives the planning and execution of a containment and eviction plan of record.
- Builds on existing systems, applies automation, and establishes self-service capabilities to scale response.
- Briefs executive stakeholders on containment and eviction plans and associated status.
- Maintains hands-on knowledge of mitigation steps for various asset types and contributes to self-service guidance for impacted engineering teams.
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Technical Program Manager
- Maintains an inventory of containment and eviction capabilities.
- Applies systems thinking to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce time to mitigate, and reduce toil of containment and eviction activities.
- Generates lean business cases to garner support for initiative prioritization and engineering investment.
- Serves as the business stakeholder for engineering efforts and assist with operationalization of said capabilities.
- Drives continuous improvement in process and tooling.