Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving their services and applications to the cloud. Security is the foremost concern for our customers as they move their services outside their datacenters. The charter of the Azure Security group is to ensure that Azure is the most secure and resilient cloud platform. We are responsible for platform integrity and health attestation, encryption and data protection, identity and access management, secrets/key management and other security capabilities for the Azure platform running 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!

Responsibilities

This is a key role on a highly visible v-Next project responsible for architecting and implementing a scalable and secure service that provides attestation capabilities to all of Microsoft cloud, including hosts, VMs and trusted execution environments. You will be working in a fast-paced environment to deliver highly-available, distributed services that are responsible for attesting to security state of Microsoft Cloud assets and enabling critical security scenarios.

This unique role provides an opportunity to

• Work on cutting edge security technologies like attestation and latest hardware innovations.
• Build secure cloud services that scale to millions of nodes.
• Work in an agile / Dev-Ops environment.

In this position, you will own end to end aspects of building and running highly available secure distributed services providing mission critical functionality for Azure.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• 3+ years of software development experience in a product group.
• BS Degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong design and development experience that includes development in C#/C++/C, preferably with distributed programming models.
• Passion in building and designing very large-scale systems; prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience in Windows client, server OS security and applied cryptography is a strong plus. Ability to go deep in security features.
• Knowledge of hardware firmware is highly desirable.
• Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success.
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential.

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.

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