Microsoft Gaming Senior Cloud Security Architect 

United States, Washington 

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Are you highly interested in Cyber security and raising the security bar?  Do you enjoy working across the company on unique solutions for a variety of areas related to Gaming? Does working with Security Analysts, Developers, and Program Management across a variety of areas excite you?   If so, the Gaming Security team would like to talk to you.

We are the Gaming Security team. Our team supports the services, platform, and studios that make up the Gaming business.  In addition, we work with other Security teams within the company to ensure that we have the right tools and services to protect these key businesses.

We are looking for aGaming Senior Cloud Security Architectto help usdevelop cloudsolutions that help secure our business by partnering and engaging with engineering teams to improve our security posture.

The successful candidate will have passion for security, committed collaboration skills, technical depth, coupled with the ability to bring others together in developing common solutions.  Effective communication skills and the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and dynamic environment are necessary. Candidate shouldthe growth mindset and display Microsoft cultural values in day-to-day activities.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 0+ years of hands-on experience inCyber Security.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with deploying cloud security guardrails and controls
• Experience with one or more programming or query languages (PowerShell, Python, Java, SQL).
• Customer-first, business-savvy, and holds a growth mindset to uphold our culture and values.
• Understanding of the Software development ecosystem; frominceptionto delivery.
• Certification in one or more of the following technologies: Microsoft Azure Security Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS Certified Security Specialty.
• Proventrack recordof improving reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
• Experience developing andmaintaininglarge scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Industry Compliance, Security, and Regulatory Standards: ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 Rev.

Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 31, 2024.

• Develop resilient,scalableand secure cloud security architecture and baselines for Gaming businesses that exceed business requirements while adhering to best practices

• Envision and architect high-quality distributed services, infrastructures, and components to enable security for our Gaming businesses

• Partner with Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft Security, and partners to ensure ongoing alignment, engineering dependencies, and build solutions

• Development of detailed roadmaps to coordinate the efforts of the engineering teams

• Effectively collaborate across large organizations and multi-disciplinary teams

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of software industry and cross-company best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies, and how these can apply to our product, business, service, and technology stack.

• Perform Technical Security Reviews, and Technical Risk Assessments.

• Perform hands-on configuration activities in areas such as Identity & Access Management, ThreatDetectionand Incident Response.

• Design process and Operational Improvement opportunities across Security Compliance Programs.

• Provide strategic and technical Cloud Security Architecture guidance to studios and business teams
• Embody our and