Principal Security Architect
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 7 days ago
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OverviewThe Azure Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure and Engineering (SCHIE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customer's expectations. The Hardware Security Center of Excellence within the SCHIE organization is responsible for design and development of Security Solutions (Silicon, Firmware, Hardware) for Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's global Azure business. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop Security features and solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO). We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. We need to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery and we need to be open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish our own. We are looking for a motivated Principal Security Architect with a background in security to work on Securing Azure Infrastructure, both for the existing Azure fleet and incoming new portfolio. The Platform Security Architect will be responsible for understanding the Product and customer requirements, and working to define Security Requirements, architecting, and designing security measures for hardware and firmware systems that power Azure today. The Principal Security Architect is familiar with industry-standard security practices and have experience working with security across all cross sections of Silicon, Hardware, firmware, Operating System (OS) and services. The candidate should have technical leadership skills, coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities, with experience in firmware development. The successful candidate should have experience with some or all the following: firmware development, System on Chip (SoC) bring-up, with Security primitives, bootloaders, platform initialization, board support package porting, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs. OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.
ResponsibilitiesResponsible for translating product/customer requirements into Engineering requirements for the SoC; hardware and firmware.Responsible for definition of end to end flow of Security Features that span multiple sub systems on the server transcending from Manufacturing all the way to Azure ServicesResponsible for conducting regular security assessments and audits on security design to identify vulnerabilities, assessing security risk and develop design and mitigation strategies to ensure they meet Azure's requirements for Platform SecurityResponsible for creating System Threat models for the Platform, working with cross functional teams to drive security through each individual component on the system.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security is incorporated Security Development Lifcycle (SDL) throughout the development process and integrated into the platform architecture.Solid understanding of security primitives, security ciphers, threat vectors, security mitigation strategies to close identified vulnerabilities.Staying up to date with the latest security trends, threats, and technologies

 

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