Principal System Security Architect – Threat Intelligence Engineering

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. 

The TI Engineering group focuses on building cutting edge solutions, countering adversary-based threats to Microsoft and its customers through dissemination of threat intelligence, proactive hunting, incident response, and the development of new solutions and methods to detect adversary activity, investigate and respond to the attacks. 

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. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Define system architecture and technology vision and roadmap for the platform.
• Security champ – Be the voice of software security and compliance architecture during product planning, definition, development, and validation to ensure the delivery of an end-to-end secure system. 
• Mentoring and tutoring – Technical leadership and support to multiple software teams: mentoring engineers through the development lifecycle, from design reviews to help tackling and debugging prod issues.
• Development and PoC – take a part in the development effort (platform and deployment), focusing on important features that show the way.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in leading the architecture of large-scale high availability distributed SaaS systems.
• 5+ years of experience in the cyber-security space. 
• Experience in defining and implementing security hardening aspects of platforms and/or products. 
• Education: Computer Science / Industrial Engineering or similar degree (or equivalent experience). 
• Eager to discover and research new directions, continuous learner. 
• Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starter, “getting things done” attitude. 
• Team player with great communication, writing, and presentation skills. 
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends. 
• Ability to think creatively and thrive in a constantly changing environment. 

Other Requirements:  

• Cloud technologies such as Azure / Google Cloud / AWS. 

• Have experience with the following technologies:  

• Web development (React/Angular/Vue/…). 
• Cloud (services, serverless, SQL/NOSQL). 
• Backend development (C#/Java/…). 
• Big data, data pipelines.

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