20 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead Authorization & Accreditation activities and drive Authority to Operate outcomes for Microsoft cloud platform services.
- Develop and oversee Risk Management Framework documentation and security artifacts, including SSPs, SAPs, SARs, POA&Ms, control implementations, and continuous monitoring evidence.
- Coordinate government compliance assessments, audits, inspections, and penetration testing, including remediation of findings.
- Act as the primary security liaison for government accrediting officials, auditors, customers, and internal stakeholders.
- Resolve complex security, compliance, accreditation, and operational issues with leadership, customers, and external oversight organizations.
- Provide Azure cloud architecture, security controls, networking, identity management, platform operations, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure administration expertise.
- Develop security automation and orchestration solutions and support regulated cloud operations.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field; or a master's degree plus 3+ years of relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree plus 4+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience includes 7+ years in a customer-facing technical security role involving high-severity incidents, crisis situations, or complex technical escalations.
- Ability to diagnose complex enterprise security issues across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud architectures using logs and telemetry.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure security solutions including Purview, Defender, Entra, Intune, or Sentinel.
- Experience with regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, ITSM, ITIL or comparable practices, and major incident, problem, change, and continual improvement management.
- Experience using Microsoft Copilot or other generative AI technologies to improve operational efficiency and customer outcomes.
- Relevant security, cloud, AI, or service management certifications are preferred, including Microsoft security certifications, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, or ITIL credentials.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to customers, engineers, product teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI access based on an SSBI with polygraph is required, along with required Microsoft, customer, and government security screenings.
- U.S. citizenship verification and successful Microsoft Cloud background checks are required.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $119,800-$234,700 per year; a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is USD $160,200-$261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.