Senior Technical Program Manager, Security Assessment

Microsoft Corporation; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 108,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Security Assessment. This pivotal role focuses on managing security assessments, ensuring product development teams meet security standards, and driving objectives to enhance secure productivity experiences. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in security engineering and technical program management, with a passion for safeguarding digital environments. Join a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and growth, and contribute to making the digital world a safer place for all users and customers. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to tackle complex security challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in security engineering or cloud service development.
• Experience managing cross-functional security projects.

Responsibilities

• Plans and coordinates execution of security assessments.
• Collaborates to track and communicate security assessment outcomes.
• Conducts security assurance reviews to meet engineering standards.

Skills

Security Engineering

Cloud Service Development

Technical Program Management

Penetration Testing

Vulnerability Assessment

Code Review

Static and Dynamic Analysis

Anomaly Detection

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in Cyber Security or related field

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager, Security Assessment

Date posted: Apr 16, 2025

Job number: 1819376

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Program Management

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

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 M365 Security Team is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, Security Assessment, to drive objectives aimed at providing secure and trusted productivity experiences. This role will involve managing programs for security assessments (penetration testing), security and privacy flaw detection engineering, planning for security flaw hunting, and conducting security assurance reviews to ensure product development teams meet SDL and SFI engineering standards. This position requires expertise in technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and customer focus.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years' experience in security engineering or cloud service development and/or technical program management
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team security projects
• 3+ years' experience with security assessments (penetration testing, architecture review, vulnerability assessment, code review), security development lifecycle, designing or developing cloud services, large scale computing, static and dynamic analysis (SAST and DAST), or anomaly detection.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Information Assurance, Network Security, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related fields

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 26, 2025.

Responsibilities

• Plans, prioritizes, and coordinates execution of security assessments including cloud service penetration testing
• Collaborates with others to track, coordinate, and communicate end-to-end security assessment status and outcomes
• Partners with engineering teams to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for security and privacy flaw discovery
• Defines success criteria and performance metrics for security assessments, variant hunting, and detection engineering for security and privacy issues
• Conducts security assurance reviews to ensure that M365 Security Requirements and engineering standards are met throughout the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Secure Future Initiative (SFI)

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.