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Senior Director - CISO Operations
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 31, 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. The CISO organization is dedicated to defending the Microsoft estate and protecting our customers and partners who rely on it with our approach reinforced by the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), a company wide effort to evolve how we design, build, test, and operate our products and services to achieve the highest possible standards for security. Our strategy is anchored in stopping adversaries through the integration of advanced threat intelligence, proactive threat hunting, rock solid operations, sustainable governance, and the facilitation of automation and augmentation with AI to anticipate, detect, and neutralize even the most sophisticated attacks. We cultivate a culture focused on growth, excellence, and empowering our teams and leaders to perform at their highest level, leading to innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are seeking a Senior Director-CISO Operations, Technical Programs for our CISO organization who will manage a team and oversee initiatives that include establishing and driving efficiency and quality rigor across organizational wide and enterprise-wide security workflows and processes. These processes will include engagement with our threat intelligence and threat hunting workflows, our strategic relationships with external customers and partners, and our internal security governance workflows. In this role, you will be responsible for driving impact against strategic goals, ensuring alignment across teams to deliver critical outcomes, and managing and developing leaders across the organization. You will work closely with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, focusing on scalable operations that drive Microsoft's security vision forward. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDefine and execute a strategic agenda across multiple cross-functional teams, identifying key opportunities and addressing critical gaps in the implementation of organization and enterprise wide operational processes.Provide executive-level guidance on strategic objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational OKRs and KPIs, and driving the prioritization of high-impact initiatives.Lead teams to ensure they are meeting performance standards and seamless execution of security operations and a variety of programs.Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, fostering a high-performance culture, and ensuring alignment with broader corporate priorities and strategic initiatives.Embody our culture and values | |