Principal Penetration Testing Engineer

OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Are you passionate about uncovering hidden vulnerabilities in complex systems and exploring new techniques for ethical hacking? Do you thrive on discovering post-exploitation methods for lateral movement across networks? Are you fascinated with staying current on computing threats? If so, the Regulated Industries Pentest Team at Microsoft is looking for you. We are looking for a Principal Penetration Testing Engineer, who will be at the forefront of securing Microsoft products and services. Our team conducts manual assessments of products, services, and software within regulated industries, ensuring the highest levels of security. You'll play a pivotal role in streamlining workflows, enhancing team processes for greater efficiency and scalability, and providing innovative solutions to complex problems.Join us in this exciting opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry and help shape the future of cybersecurity at Microsoft. Your intelligence, creativity, and dedication will be key to elevating our organization's security standards. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.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.ResponsibilitiesPlan, research, and execute testing of computer systems and applications to simulate real world attacks on Microsoft's services and infrastructure.Assess existing security capabilities to detect and respond to emerging threats.Outline and document risk impacts in executive summary reports and communications to relevant stakeholders.Perform research to stay current with penetration testing tools, methodologies, tactics, and mitigations.Participate as an infrastructure/operation specialist in overt penetration testing engagements, where we emulate real-world adversaries, During Purple Team engagementsDevelop and maintain penetration testing procedures and methodologies.Conduct research to remain updated with the latest in application security, both offensive and defensive techniques. Use these findings to educate and raise awareness within the Microsoft Security Community.