Principal Security Operations Engineer Lead

Principal Security Operations Engineer Lead

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.

The IAM Protect team secures Microsoft’s most critical cloud services by reducing risks in the Trusted Computing Base (TCB). We focus on identifying adversary tactics and breach paths, driving structured risk burndown, and ensuring critical telemetry is consistently available for detection and response.

We are hiring a Principal Security Operations Engineer Lead to spearhead risk burndown initiatives across our most mission-critical services and build a cutting-edge center of excellence around the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) program's Protect Tenants and Isolate Production Systems (TI) pillar.

In this role, you will lead a high-impact team that blends deep technical expertise with tactical execution. The ideal candidate will have a security engineering background with hands-on technical depth, combined with the program management and people management skills to coordinate across engineering teams, prioritize risk reduction, and deliver durable outcomes at scale. You will shape how we quantify and mitigate top risks, while driving impactful KPIs across Microsoft. This role is both technical and strategic - perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of security operations, data, and engineering.

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.