Senior Technical Program Manager

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.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive large-scale network security initiatives across Microsoft. This role is pivotal in advancing network isolation, segmentation, and monitoring capabilities that ensure the resilience, compliance, and security of our cloud infrastructure. As a Senior TPM, you will partner closely with security engineering, networking, and compliance teams to define and drive strategy for end-to-end network security, establish and scale monitoring and detection capabilities to identify and mitigate emerging threats, and align cross-organizational roadmaps to deliver secure-by-design architectures that protect Azure.

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 strategic programs to strengthen Microsoft’s network security posture, including isolation, segmentation, secure network architecture, monitoring, and perimeter hardening across cloud services.

⦁ Drive adoption of zero-trust principles, private networking, secure-by-design network architectures, and service-level isolation patterns.

⦁ Establish and scale network security monitoring and detection capabilities, with the ability to analyze telemetry and threat data to identify trends, risks, and areas for proactive improvement.

⦁ Track and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of program milestones.

⦁ Build and maintain program-level dashboards and KPIs, providing leadership with visibility and enabling data-driven decision-making.

Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary programs involving network security and cloud architecture.
• 2+ years of experience understanding of networking concepts such as Cloud networking/SDN, routing/switching, and network security technologies (Firewall, VPN, private links, ACLs)
• 2+ years of experience with  network and vulnerability scanning (Nmap, Qualisys, Zap or similar)
• 1+ year(s) of hands-on experience with data analytics using Kusto, SQL, or similar query languages, with the ability to analyze telemetry and logs

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 following specialized security screenings: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Deep understanding of network security engineering and architecture
• Experience with Azure networking and security features (e.g., Azure Firewall, Private Link, Azure Policy).
• Familiarity with security compliance standards (FedRAMP, NIST, ISO 27001 or similar).
• Experience working in large-scale, distributed cloud environments.
• Ability to drive alignment and execution across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.
• Knowledge of cloud security and isolation strategies (e.g., zero trust, segmentation, isolation).

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 will accept applications for the role until October 21, 2025.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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