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Microsoft Principal Security Engineer United States 481569778
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In this role, you will lead the design, deployment, and management of infrastructure to support cutting-edge security research and autonomous simulation environments. Your focus will include building scalable, secure, and reproducible research environments through infrastructure as code, enabling the testing and simulation of adversarial techniques to generate incident data and produce ground truth for defensive and offensive operations. You will collaborate closely with security researchers, applied scientists, and red team operators to enable advanced experimentation, streamline operational workflows, and enhance the efficiency of our simulation and testing frameworks.
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience with hands-on deploying attacker infrastructure for red team operations and designing adversary simulation ranges to support research, testing, and development of adversary techniques.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP environments.
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.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex security concepts effectively.
- Previous project management skills with a proven track record of driving projects to completion.
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 12, 2025.
- Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) to build reproducible research environments, ensuring robust systems for experimentation, development, and simulation.
- Create systems for testing and simulating adversary workflows, generating telemetry to empower operators in producing ground truth and evaluation datasets for defensive and offensive operations.
- Collaborate with security researchers and applied scientists to align infrastructure with the replication of attacker campaigns and operational workflows.
- Continuously improve simulation frameworks and methodologies to support evolving research needs, enabling realistic attack simulations and advancing offensive and defensive data analysis.
- Share knowledge through collaborations, presentations, publications, and open-source contributions, fostering innovation and integration of cutting-edge research within the broader security community.
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