Principal Group Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 01, 2024 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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.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. Copilot for Security, the first security focused generative AI product, reimagines how security gets done and how we do security. It empowers security and IT teams to protect at the speed and scale of AI making them more productive and allowing them to improve their skills. As pioneers in the field, we are committed to addressing the evolving challenges and opportunities within the realm of cybersecurity and continue to be the market leaders when it comes to GAI and Security. Our team is seeking a Principal Group Engineering Manager to join our team to deliver world-class infrastructure for our services and soon AI services and Agents. As the leader of the Base Platform & Infrastructure team, you are obsessed about developer's velocity and you will lead engineering teams chartered to providing a resilient platform that supports advanced AI and data workloads to provide highly reliable, scalable, secure, and automated services in a highly paced, dynamic environment. This role demands deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies, AI tech, DevOps practices, and security. Your team will design, implement, and operate the CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment of platform services. You will stay acutely aware of COGS at scale, providing guidance to building features efficiently and ensuring that our infrastructure runs smoothly and cost effectively. You will be responsible for identity, access management, secrets protection, capacity and throttling services. You will provide a vision for supporting our AI platform needs and international presence, aligning with stakeholders to deliver innovative and impactful solutions that reach millions of customers worldwide.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.
ResponsibilitiesAs the General Engineering Manager, you will:Lead and grow a team of engineering managers and engineers to build scalable services while championing a growth mindset, diversity and inclusion.Live by the leadership principles of: create clarity, generate energy and deliver results.Coach the team to deliver success through empowerment and accountability, establishing clear objectives and outcomes.Enable success across boundaries and help the team adapt and learn in a very high pace, adaptive environment.Guide partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements within and across teams, identify dependencies and lead the appropriate infrastructure design for high efficiency and low costs.Optimize for performance and cost.Champion automation in all aspects of infrastructure and deployment processes, ensuring efficient, repeatable workflows across environments.Oversee the implementation of robust security practices across the platform and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA), driving auditing, governance and access control.Drive technical innovation by exploring new cloud technologies and adopting best practices to enhance platform resilience and efficiency | |