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Senior Program Manager - Security Assurance
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. We are looking to hire a Senior Program Manager to support strategic security and compliance initiatives by analyzing complex security issues, driving risk-informed remediation, and enabling cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) teams. This role is pivotal in enhancing enterprise security posture while ensuring alignment with frameworks such as NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HITRUST. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical expertise, regulatory awareness, and program management skills to identify high-impact vulnerabilities, design secure cloud-native (Azure) solutions, and support security reviews and audit readiness. They will help develop and operationalize compliance programs that meet internal governance requirements and external audit expectations.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.
ResponsibilitiesAnalyze complex security issues using multiple data sources to uncover root causes and unmitigated vulnerabilities. Identify, prioritize, and remediate complex security risks with technically sound, auditable, and standard-aligned solutions. Support large-scale security reviews across Azure and hybrid environments, ensuring compliance rigor and technical depth. Define, track, and report compliance metrics and audit findings to support both internal governance and external reporting. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to clarify security priorities, manage risk dependencies, and drive alignment across teams. Conduct secure architecture design and planning in consideration of product schedules, dependencies, and risk assessments. Maintain deep subject matter expertise in cloud security, vulnerability management, and compliance tooling. Stay current with regulatory changes and emerging technologies, providing guidance, mentorship, and documentation to support organizational learning. Contribute to internal and external security communities to promote best practices and share actionable insights. Embody our culture and values | |