Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

As Azure business continues to grow the ability to deploy new service offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest TCO is of paramount importance. Azure Firmware Center of Excellence team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customers’ expectations.

To achieve this goal, we are looking for an experienced Security focused Technical Program Manager who will be the leader of our Security Vulnerability workstream for Azure Hardware/Firmware. If you have been working in the HW/FW security space and want to take the next step in your career, to come help us shape, define, develop, implement and track innovative security solutions for Azure Cloud, then this is a great opportunity for you. As the Security PM Leader for HW Security CoE team, you will be responsible to drive cross-org security programs to increase the security posture across Azure Cloud; a critical one being leading E2E Vulnerability Management across all Firmware payloads including our recently announced 1P offerings of MAIA (AI SoC) and Cobalt (Compute SoC).

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge cloud technology that changes our world. The Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team in Microsoft’s Azure C+E division is responsible for delivering server infrastructure for Microsoft’s online services. The hardware for operating these services (over 200 and counting), comprises hundreds of thousands of servers spread globally and applications that reach hundreds of millions of users every day. Our customer-base is growing rapidly, our infrastructure investments are multiplying, and the size of our global infrastructure is increasing by the day; along with the scale of our challenges. Learn more about our team and projects here Azure Hardware Infrastructure

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our team. In order to be successful in this role, you should have passion and interest in security technologies, be able to drive collaboration with multiple teams and have a willingness to develop holistic approaches to product solutions, work through discussions on Security severity, drive the right decision making involving trade offs at the cross section of security, performance, schedule and cost.  You should also have a good understanding of Hardware and Firmware, and their intersection with Security and Compliance.

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