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.

The Purview Platform team's mission is to building cloud solutions to support premiumfeaturesthat provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows.We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planetandbuild our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook.TheIDCarm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both. The teamwill be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base.The Security Platform teamprovides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design,infrastructuresdevelopment and end to end implementation.You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 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

Design-Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Leads identification of other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others.
Guides teams through efforts to determine back-end dependencies associated with product, application, service, or platform functionality for the solution/product.
Demonstrates deep understanding of up and downstream effects of solutions and work provided to ensure appropriate security and performance, driving reliability in the solutions, and optimize dependency chains and retrieves across teams.
Identifies areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members and drives coordination.
Enables cross team communications and resolves conflicts between teams.
Engineering Excellence-Guides team and leads efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across solutions and teams.
Guides team to create and assure presence of visible evidence to demonstrate compliance for products.
Guides team to maintains a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft. Identifies skills needed and ensures engineering team's skills remain current by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments.
Proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
Guides the decision-making process around tool development.
Oversees resourcing of tool development and reuse within the team.
Ensures the team uses open sources and reuses them as applicable.
Guides others, builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products.
Uses open source when possible.
Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise.
Guides others and identifies internal tools and creates new tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies.
Guides comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment across products. Guides others to run code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime across products.
Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, and scalable solutions to guarantee quality.
Reliability and Supportability Guides team and leads efforts to collect, classify, and analyze complex data and analyses on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). - Leads the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. G
uides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Alerts stakeholders to status and establishes actions to restore system/product/service. Develops a playbook, guidelines, and processes for the team to resolve issues.
Coordinates people and resources to ensure DRI responsibilities are covered across teams.
Ensures responses are within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. - Has line of sight to incidences and plans to address emerging issues. - Leads efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
4+ Years of people manage experience or managing a team of 10-12 people.
Having some experience driving product strategy and growth and some exposure or experience into Data Governance will be Plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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