Senior Security Operations Engineer - MAPP Partner Enablement

Senior Security Operations Engineer – MAPP Partner Enablement

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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 Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), part of the Security Incentives & Partnerships team within the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), is seeking a strategically minded and technically fluent Senior Security Operations Engineer - MAPP Partner Enablement to join our team. This role is pivotal to MAPP's evolution—from a CVE-sharing initiative to a proactive, intelligence-driven ecosystem that empowers global security partners to protect customers faster and more effectively.

As a Senior Security Operations Engineer - MAPP Partner Enablement , you will lead the operationalization of detection guidance for high-priority vulnerabilities, drive partner readiness, and help shape how Microsoft scales threat intelligence across the ecosystem. This role requires a unique blend of technical depth, business acumen, and cross-functional coordination to ensure that detection content is not only accurate and timely—but also impactful, measurable, and monetizable.

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.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities :

• Operationalize Detection Guidance : Coordinate the end-to-end delivery of detection guidance for critical vulnerabilities, ensuring clarity, consistency, and partner usability—without directly authoring detection content.
• Partner Enablement : Serve as a strategic liaison to MAPP partners, helping them interpret detection logic, understand CVE impact, and accelerate deployment of mitigations.
• Business Strategy & Monetization : Collaborate within the MSRC, Legal, and Business Development partners to define monetization pathways for detection content, including licensing models, usage agreements, and value-based delivery frameworks.
• Program Orchestration : Manage the monthly MAPP Security Release process and other recurring partner deliverables, ensuring alignment across MSTIC, GHOST, Defender, and other internal stakeholders.
• Process & Tooling Innovation : Identify and implement improvements to detection guidance workflows, telemetry validation, and partner feedback loops.
• Impact Measurement : Define and track KPIs that demonstrate the effectiveness of detection guidance and partner enablement efforts, including adoption rates, time-to-protection, and customer coverage.
• Strategic Influence : Help position MAPP as a business enabler and strategic differentiator within Microsoft's security ecosystem.

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here : https : / / careers.microsoft.com / us / en / us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 2, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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