Do you ever wonder what it would be like to help protect over a billion users across the planet?  Believe us, it is a fun roller coaster ride! Our team's mission is to protect our customers from the perils and attacks they face as they engage the online world. The team's charter is to build a world class anti-virus and security product that protects our customers wherever they are with whatever device they are using.  We continually take in suggestions, bug bounty, internal penetration test and external customer feedback to keep our customer's data secure. We are tasked with keeping up and an exceeding the pace of innovation that is happening around the world.

The Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Team is looking for a Security Architect to help secure our customers.  You will be working with a talented team of engineers chartered with protecting our customers from the threats they face in this changing landscape of security. This position needs you to have a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data informed decision making, partner engagement, and execution skills. If all this sounds interesting to you then you should talk to us!

Responsibilities

As a Security Architect on the team you will be responsible to:

• Develop and execute the Security Roadmap for Microsoft Defender
• Work as part of and together with Engineering teams on new features, services, and updates to the product
• Investigate and incubate new ways to protect customers, their data, and our services.
• Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security services and clients tracking key metrics.
• Create and represent plans to management for driving security improvements across Microsoft Defender.
• Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences.
• Any other reasonable activity directed by management 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of security industry experience and knowledge of the current security landscape.
• Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security improvements 
• Experience with x-platform development and security practices

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong knowledge in at least one of the following Windows, MacOS, or Linux operating system internals and common security challenges

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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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