New 
Principal Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 May 24, 2025 | |
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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. Microsoft's Threat Protection Group is seeking a Principal Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & Automation to lead the design, development, and automation of secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for our Purple Team and other scenario runs. This team plays a critical role in bridging offensive and defensive security, simulating real-world threats, and enhancing Microsoft's detection and response capabilities across our cloud ecosystem. As a Principal Engineer, you will drive the architecture and automation of cloud-based environments used for adversary emulation, detection engineering, and threat research. You will collaborate with red and blue teams, security researchers, and product engineers to build resilient systems that support advanced threat scenarios and accelerate our security response. 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.
ResponsibilitiesArchitect and implement scalable, secure, and automated cloud infrastructure (Azure-first, multi-cloud aware) to support purple team operations. Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage complex environments for threat simulation and detection validation. Collaborate with red and blue teams to design environments that mimic real-world enterprise scenarios for adversary emulation and detection testing. Automate telemetry collection, log aggregation, and signal enrichment to support threat detection and hunting. Lead technical strategy for infrastructure automation, cloud security posture, and operational excellence. Mentor and guide other engineers and security analysts in cloud engineering best practices and secure automation. Stay current with emerging threats, cloud technologies, and security automation trends. | |