Principal Security Architect

38 Minutes ago • 6-10 Years • Cyber Security • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Principal Security Architect role at Microsoft involves overseeing system design, security capability development, and solution incubation. You'll collaborate with engineering teams, product management, and customers to improve cloud solution security. Responsibilities include providing thought leadership, partnering with decision-makers to reduce risk, serving as a technical expert, and assisting in resolving complex technical problems. The role requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance and extensive experience in cloud architecture and software development.
Must have:
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance
  • 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • 3+ years cloud architecture experience
  • 3+ years software development experience
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve security
  • Provide security thought leadership
Good to have:
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science
  • 10+ years technical engineering experience

Job Details

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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.


Our group is responsible for providing organizations with the best security solution for their cloud environment, allowing for visibility, governance, and protection over their infrastructure, platforms, and application solutions. We are looking to hire a Principal Security Architect - to oversee system design, security capability development, solution incubation, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with a distributed engineering team, product management, field, and customers in addition to the central Azure organization leveraging the best platforms that Microsoft has to offer.


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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in a cloud architecture role
  • 3+ years of software development experience

Other Requirements:

 

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:  

  • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.  Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
  • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience

    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience

    • OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

 

Microsoft will accept applications for this role until April 28, 2025. 

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering teams to understand and improve the security capabilities of cloud solutions and infrastructure
  • Collaborate with Service Teams and organizations to bring to fruition cross-company security initiatives
  • Provide vision and thought leadership for state-of-the-art security of the Microsoft estate
  • Partner with Security Engineering and technical decision makers on reducing risk and creating business value on top of the Microsoft Security platform
  • Serve as a go-to technical expert in the security space working with other security organizations in Microsoft
  • Assist engineering teams in resolving complex technical problems and when needed, engage hands-on with the building, operations and security of services, systems and applications

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