Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180 million using Office 365, and millions using other services - all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure - CO+I designs, builds, and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.
The CO+I Physical Security team is organized within the Core Operations Functions (COF) team and is dedicated to delivering the most trustworthy security program to protect the personnel, infrastructure, data, and confidential information foundational to the Microsoft Cloud. With more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers, our mission is to be the most reliable, rigorous, and trusted physical security provider of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. We are accountable stewards of the awesome responsibility we hold. We innovate to meet challenges and optimize to scale efficiently. We constantly create and maintain a collaborative ecosystem. We appreciate and act on opportunities to improve.
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**:
**Datacenter Security Management**:
- Oversee the implementation of physical security policies and procedures, ensuring Microsoft's physical security vendor has the resources and information to deliver physical security services that meet Microsoft and customer requirements to protect people, information, and critical infrastructure.
- Partner with datacenter operations, security systems and other Microsoft stakeholders to ensure secure and continuous operations while maintaining a One Team, One Microsoft environment.
- Continuously improve the efficiency and maturity of the overall physical security program at Microsoft datacenters, seeking data and recommending strategies and ideas to reduce churn, optimizing resources, implement creative solutions to problems, scale, automate and simplify process whenever possible.
- Demonstrate and promote a Microsoft culture within the workplace that supports the ability to attract, develop and retain talent; deliver results through teamwork; role model our Microsoft values with a passion for diversity and inclusion.
- Partner with local vendor guard force management to drive a training objective of providing enhanced industry leading and 'certified' dedicated Datacenter Security Protection Professionals (ex: Corporate/ASIS/DCPRO certifications).
**Datacenter Security Leadership**:
- Partner and collaborate effectively with regional peers, leaders and stakeholders, focused on maintaining a One Team, One Microsoft environment.
- As the area COF security representative, ensure the operations team and all related security vendors successfully represent Microsoft during internal, external and customer audits. This may include representing other COF peer teams like Environmental Health and Safety.
- Provide a holistic security program (end-to-end) approach to oversight, providing integrated support to regional evaluation, design, project management and operational leadership resources from conception to decommissioning.
- Facilitate and support field site visits to assess the physical security posture and site safety; collaborate with peer colleagues at other datacenters to review, assess and share "best practices;" document issues identified during those visits requiring improvement; and follow through on recommendations/actions to resolution.
- Receive escalations/notifications of physical security and business impacting events and appropriately triage, ensure that regional leadership is kept informed through regular communication as appropriate and that the necessary personnel for managing an incident respond effectively.
- Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
**Insider Threat**:
- Provide localized expertise to recognize key indicators of an insider threat.
- Facilitate analysis with regional and program-level resources of the local environment to identify specific threat profiles and actors.
- Provides an independent (human) two-factor authentication and authorization for all activity on site (Factor 1 = Datacenter Management Factor 2= DSOM).
- Promote an environment of awareness and continuous learning to mitigate insider threat, promoting empowerment of the work force to be force multipliers in an "all' organization holistic mitigation strategy.
- Focus policies, procedures, and training to continually enhance Microsoft's prevention, deterrence, and advanced detection capability to create a program "differentiator" from our competitors.
**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:
- 2+ years' experience in Security Program Management or Program Management in a related field or demonstrated transfe