Security Operations Engineering Manager

microsoft

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead a security operations team to mitigate threats, respond to breaches, and develop detection capabilities.

Role type

Senior IC Security Operations Engineering Manager

Builds

Threat mitigation services, security breach response protocols, monitoring and detection capabilities

Domain

Cyber security, Security Operations Center (SOC), threat analytics

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, security incident and event management (SIEM), operations incident response, people management, leading security functions, leading multi-disciplinary teams

Preferred skills

CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, Security+ certification

Technologies

SIEM

Responsibilities

Guide team in responding to and investigating security breaches, coordinate with partners to secure data and maintain chain of custody, develop monitoring and detection capabilities to identify threats, manage relationships with third-party account management

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management

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## About the role Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Guide team to meet threat mitigation service levels with internal and external partners and manage relationships with third-party account management. Support end to end security breach protocol by guiding team in responding, investigating, communicating with stakeholders, resolving, and running post-mortem analysis for any security breaches. Coordinate with partner teams to secure data and maintain chain of custody. Guide team to develop monitoring and detection capabilities to identify threats and malicious activity, ensuring adequate resources for mitigation, while also collaborating with internal and external partners to leverage and evangelize best practices. ## Requirements - Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response - These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - 7+ years of experience in cyber security, and anomaly detection OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field. - 2+ years people management. - 1+ year(s) leading a security function (e.g., Security Operations Center [SOC], threat and vulnerability management [TVM]). - 1+ year(s) leading multi-disciplinary team. - CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification.

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