# Principal Security Operations Engineering Manager

OverviewTeam Purpose The Microsoft AI Infrastructure Information Security team protects the products, platforms, data, and technology ecosystem that support AI development and operations at scale. You will help the Product and Platform Security team secure services across on-premises and cloud environments by embedding security into how software is designed, built, tested, deployed, and operated. Working across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business teams, you will help create secure-by-default development practices that reduce systemic risk while enabling teams to deliver quickly. Role Summary As a Principal Security Engineering Manager in the Microsoft AI Infrastructure Information Security team, you will build and lead a team of security engineers responsible for product and platform security. You will own and evolve the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), guide architecture and code reviews, expand threat modeling and security testing, and integrate automated guardrails into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. You will partner with engineering leaders to prioritize risk, establish practical paved paths, and apply A

- **Id**: 3900372
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-security-operations-engineering-manager-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-21T21:56:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T01:39:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 17
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9138
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Information Security, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 456
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 17

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Management years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T00:25:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 56
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.621
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 16
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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