We are looking for a Principal Program Manager who can help us drive investments in network traffic analysis within the SIEM platform to help SOC analysts proactively identify and respond to threats. A core focus of this position will be centered on data ingestion optimization and normalization of network data and metadata as well as coordinating the development of analytics to detect anomalies and identify threats.

Successful candidates should have extensive knowledge of network protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, HTTP, IPFIX, and DNS, network traffic metadata formats such as Zeek, and NetFlow, and transports like TCP and UDP. Additionally, knowledge of routing, BGP, and software defined networking, TAP and span ports and packet brokers is important for this role.

If you are passionate about solving large business problems at scale through cutting edge technology, with extraordinary customer focus and insight. If you are data-driven, a quick learner and enjoy creating long-term business value, then this is the role for you.

We are a team that is customer obsessed, has a strong drive for results, and believes that effective collaboration is how we all achieve more.  As part of our team, you will engage directly with our customers, analyze a wealth of data, and identify new opportunities for the team to execute on.  Most importantly, you’ll be part of a team that grows, learns, and succeeds together.

Responsibilities

• Define the feature roadmap for NTA in Azure Sentinel
• Work with industry partners and data providers to design and optimize product integrations
• Apply data driven insights to create business justifications and value proposition for proposed engineering investments
• Convert complex scenarios into business requirements and then drive technical feature specifications
• Bring those scenarios to market, drive adoption, and evaluate their success
• Partner with the software engineering teams to implement scenarios that will increase the capability to deliver against critical KPIs
• Manage schedules, risks, and issues with effective communication to the team, to senior management and company executives
• Learn from our successes and our failures, and feed those learnings back into our own hypothesis driven development cycle

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

•  10+ years of experience in an engineering or program and/or product management role

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related disciplineExcellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with data analytics and data mining
• Experience leading external partner engagements strongly preferred
• Excellent cross-group/cross-discipline skills
• Practical experience in all aspects of software engineering and development lifecycle; particularly with scenario focused design and development
• Highly cooperative, empathetic and strong interpersonal skills to create clarity and align differing viewpoints 
• Self-starter that can work independently with little supervision 

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. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.