Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving their services and applications on to the cloud. For Azure, providing a secure cloud platform is vital to win customers and move their workloads to Azure. The charter of the Azure Security group is to ensure that Azure is the most secure and resilient cloud platform. Azure security team is responsible to build secure cloud infrastructure. This enables customers to confidently run their workloads. Azure security team builds security services like system integrity & health attestation, encryption & data protection for Azure platform at cloud scale. If you are looking for a challenge and passionate about protecting Microsoft and customer’s assets in the cloud, Azure security team has the right role for you!

We are looking for a principal level engineer to build and lead Trusted computing infrastructure for Azure. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing integrity / attestation services for Azure platform to ensure health & integrity right from the supply chain, compute hosts all the way through the VMs. We are looking for technical leaders to drive trusted computing initiative across organizations and industry partners. This is a rare opportunity to be at forefront of trusted computing wave. You will be working in a fast-paced environment to build and deliver highly available, distributed services end-to-end that integrate with core Azure components like Fabric, Firmware, Host OS, Host Agents and Monitoring. 

This is a unique role that provides an opportunity to

• Lead and build trusted computing infrastructure in Azure partnering with various organizations and companies.
• Work on cutting edge industry standard security technologies like Secureboot, measured boot, attestation, and latest hardware innovations.
• Architect and build critical ring0 cloud security services that scale to millions of nodes.

Responsibilities

We are looking for strong technical leaders who can architect and implement security services for entire Azure infrastructure. This role requires a technically proficient, security minded engineer who wants to have broad impact across Azure and industry. Your primary responsibilities include leading a team of engineers, architecting, designing, coding and operationalizing security services at massive scale that will help ensure Azure is the most secure cloud operating system in the world!

Qualifications

• Strong technical leadership to drive initiatives across organizations.
• Passion in building and designing very large-scale systems; Prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus.
• Proven technical leader with architecture, design, and development experience.
• Security including firmware, boot and kernel components is a bonus.
• 12+ years of experience developing and shipping software/services.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, deliver in an agile environment, be willing to learn and adopt new technologies/industry trends and have good cross group collaboration skills.

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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