Overview
The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
The Azure Security Monitoring team helps safeguard Azure’s services and infrastructure by delivering comprehensive security telemetry and enabling detection and response at scale. We partner across engineering, security research, and service teams to understand evolving threats, learn from incidents, prioritize gaps, and drive improvements through mitigation, improved telemetry, or high-fidelity detections.
As a Senior Program Manager, the individual will lead the post-incident detection workstream, ensuring that learnings from incidents and security exercises are converted into clear detection and telemetry actions with owners, tracking, and follow-through. In parallel, it drives detection lifecycle observability by defining what visibility is required (e.g., detection opportunities, authoring progress, data completeness/health, and key gaps) and working with partners to operationalize reporting so teams can make decisions based on shared, reliable metrics. This is a high‑impact role for someone who thrives in security, cross‑team leadership, and building clarity in complex technical spaces.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the post-incident detection workstream: Turn learnings from incidents and security exercises into clear detection and telemetry opportunities, align owners across partner teams, and drive work items to closure with accountable timelines and measurable outcomes.
- Define program goals, success metrics, and execution plans for security outcomes: establish what “done” looks like (coverage, readiness, operational outcomes), translate strategy into milestones, and ensure delivery remains aligned to organizational priorities.
- Drive detection lifecycle observability and reporting: define the questions and KPIs leaders and engineering teams need across the detection lifecycle (opportunity intake, authoring progress, data completeness/health, and gaps), then partner with analysts/engineers to operationalize dashboards and recurring reporting.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and growth
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
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 followingspecialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience with security technologies working to deliver and/or support customers/partners.
- 5+ years of experience in cross-group, cross-functional engineering roles.
- Technical curiosity and aptitude to quickly understand service capabilities, technical issues, and partner needs.
- AI-Curious and Future-Ready: passionate about how generative AI and automation can solve business challenges and elevate operational excellence.
Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 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.
