Security Assurance Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 13, 2025 | |
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OverviewTeam Description: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. The Security Engineering team within Microsoft Security helps to identify threats and gaps in the very tools that protect the planet's largest, most influential organizations from cyberattacks. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLeads a team of technical experts to uphold and evolve standards in security architecture, analysis, design, and assurance. This role provides thought leadership across teams, proactively identifying and addressing complex security challenges while influencing security standards both within and beyond Microsoft. The Security Assurance Manager drives the creation of scalable mechanisms for best practice sharing and ensures Microsoft remains a visible leader in security expertise. This role oversees architectural and security design reviews across a suite of features, ensuring work is properly resourced, prioritized, and aligned with strategic goals. Responsibilities include real-time reprioritization, cross-team collaboration, and the orchestration of efforts across diverse specialties. The manager also plays a key role in people development-driving employee growth, managing performance, and executing high-impact projects. A critical aspect of the role is anticipating emerging security risks and closing gaps through innovation and deep technical insight. Other Embody our culture and values | |