Are you passionate about cloud and the benefits it can bring to support the largest and most complex government customers in their journey to the cloud?  Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services. Continuing this success, Azure has expanded into the Government space with its mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation and security to those customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, departments and agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, in a consistent hybrid environment designed for flexibility and scale. Azure for Government enables innovation with deeply integrated cloud services, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provides the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage intelligent solutions. Government customers can leverage the vast network of Microsoft’s technology partners and diverse marketplace offerings, to advance their mission and serve their citizens. 

As we drive to be the leading cloud platform in the world, Azure Global Government Engineering team is hiring an exceptional Government Expansion Director to help accelerate our most strategic government customers’ adoption of Microsoft Azure by connecting our technical experience, along with our customers’ vision and challenges directly to the engineering product teams, and as a result help to ensure Azure is the most compelling solution on the market. We work across the broad range of Azure technologies understanding customer mission scenarios, cloud patterns and adoption blockers.  

If so, the Azure Global Government (AGG) Team is looking for a seasoned and experienced engineering leader to help define and execute on our Government expansion strategy. You will partner closely with your colleagues, engineering, and infrastructure teams, as well as country leadership to drive adoption of Azure.   

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform and grow within our organization and to shape the adoption of Azure.  We encourage you to apply to learn more. 

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform and grow within our organization and to shape the adoption of Azure.  We encourage you to apply to learn more. 

Responsibilities

The successful candidate must be customer obsessed, collaborative, and be able to apply principle-based thinking to critical problems to create outcome-oriented strategies. As a Government Cloud Expansion Director, it will be critical to influence, engender trust and leverage long-term relationships at a time when the Government’s going through one of the most complex transformations in history, especially in this secure environment and the challenge that adds.

You will engage directly with key business partners and government customers up to the CXO level, supporting partnerships and opportunities with tier one customers, whilst also driving large strategic and complex projects. Additionally, the successful candidate will establish partnerships and a unified strategy and execution model with the local subsidiary and provide transparency and situational awareness of Azure Engineering investments and priorities through regular engagement and reporting. You will be accountable to lead engagements with new Senior Government Stakeholders to understand and support their national strategy from an all-up Microsoft perspective, to include the following scope of responsibilities: Customer Success Management, Technical Leadership, and Winning New Business.

• This is a Senior role responsible for leading the Cyber Security Activity in country for the provision of higher classification network capability this person will be accountable ensuring the successful Security operations and assurance of the program.

• Define and deliver the cyber security program to achieve Government accreditation.

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of government policy threat and risk, delivering compliance documentation to gain authority to operate in conjunction with relevant customer stakeholders.

• Working with Azure Engineering teams and external security consultants to translate security policy into actionable designs to achieve compliance.

• Create and communicate knowledge of Information Security and Assurance processes

• Cyber controls and frameworks for deployment of secure enclaves, gateways and restricted administrative environments, Mission Critical Platform modernization

• Contribute directly to engineering product teams helping to ensure Azure is the most aligned compelling mission workloads for the Defense and Intelligence sector

• Provide security and architectural guidance for solutions on azure through engagement with security risk and compliance personnel

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS Computer Science, Cyber Security or relevant Engineering Degree

• CISSP or equivalent certification

• Deep understanding of Cyber Security Risk Frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, PCS, SOC)

• Cyber threat modelling and threat intelligence analysis experience

• 10+ years of information security/cyber security experience in highly regulated industries

• Fluency in English and in local language

Desired Attributes

• 7+ years experience in program management

• Strong senior executive customer and partner expertise and a data driven approach.

• Ability to coordinate across numerous teams including security engineering teams and stake holders to raise the security bar and drive accountability.

• End-to-end Delivery and Innovation

• Agility in fast paced environment

• Deep experience working across the Defense and Security community

• Strong Creditability to engage on cyber threats, risk countermeasures, internally and externally with senior executives.

• Solid solution architecture and cybersecurity technical skills-you will need to be able to deliver deep technical content and bridge that technical knowledge to mature, business discussions at executive level.

• Ability to perform threat and risk assessment, interpret and communicate compliance controls across multiple layers of a cloud platform and application architecture

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