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Responsibilities

Do you have a passion for security and get excited about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft faces in the enterprise today? Are you looking to join a fast-paced, dynamic, and diverse team?

The Assessment Consulting & Engineering (ACE) team is the assurance arm of Microsoft’s Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) organization. Our team is a dynamic organization chartered with providing security assurance services to Microsoft’s enterprise to help effectively identify and mitigate security risks. We are a high energy, highly collaborative team.

The successful candidate for this role will work across teams and service lines to execute on our ACE strategy for providing end to end security assurance for Microsoft Digital. This includes application security assurance and automation capabilities across a broad portfolio of apps and services. As a Security Assurance Architect, you will be expected to contribute to the strategy and vision for the team and also drive continuous assurance into the engineering and operations processes. You will have the opportunity to work with engineering teams starting early in the development cycle to influence secure design and development. We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive team, and we expect that you will join us on this mission.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide security subject matter expertise and conduct security assessments.

• Lead & execute on a strategy that focuses on effective and efficient security processes to mitigate risk for Microsoft’s enterprise.

• Ensure the controls, platforms and tools which support the assurance processes are aligned to the latest security trends and engineering models.

• Work with other security assurance and security tooling teams across Microsoft to ensure a One Microsoft approach wherever possible for at-scale security assurance.

• Collaborate effectively with other engineering and pentest teams.

Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience working as an information security professional, technical program management or similar engineering role

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with one or more of the following: threat modelling, identity management, web application development, DevSecOps (Development Security Operations).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in application security and/or security assessment programs.Experience with cloud security assessment or cloud application development using Azure or another major cloud provider.Communication and Presentation skills and experience presenting to management.

• Decision making skills, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous situations.

• Desire to innovate, grow, and learn as the industry continually evolves.

• Experience in a team environment, running and designing enterprise scale services and platforms, technical depth in cloud platforms, agile development practices, and experience in designing & tuning telemetry.

• Experience ensuring resilient and scalable service designs through partnership with other members of the service team.

Security Assurance IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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