Program Manager - Network Security at Microsoft

This role focuses specifically on Azure network security (Azure Firewall, DDoS Protection, and WAF). The ideal candidate must possess a strong technical background in some combination of the following: application security, network security, network architecture, and cloud computing (Azure).

Responsibilities

• Dig deep into the technologies as a Subject Matter Expert 
• Understand the story behind our security solutions, and tell it both internally and externally at events like Ready, Ignite, Tech Summits, etc. 
• Work directly with customers to validate successful deployments and guide secure network architecture decisions.
• Recognize our customers’ needs, how these needs drive deployments, and what feature gaps exist.
• Drive the customer story internally to lead the evolution of our products.
• Contribute to the technical documentation for our products, writing blogs, troubleshooting guides, reference architectures, playbooks, etc. 
• Maintain demo/lab environment for effective demonstration, problem solving, and learning. 
• Work with early adopter customers in preview programs to test new scenarios, gather feedback and triage issues with developers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• Technical experience in enterprise security and/or networking.
• Technical experience in cloud computing, preferably Azure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly on a new technical domain.
• Passion for technology, software engineering, quality, and customer solutions
• Excellent Technical PM fundamentals: design savvy, data-driven, disciplined, deep and diverse customer empathy, passion for learning, can-do creativity, concise communications and PM persuasion skills.
• Creativity and optimism grounded in practical engineering and business know-how.