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Leads Blue Team capabilities for large-scale federal cyber exercises. Designs defender workflows, hunt content, evaluation criteria, training objectives, and operational playbooks; coordinates customers, red teams, control cells, and account teams; facilitates exercises and after-action reviews; translates findings into detection improvements and remediation plans; and mentors cybersecurity personnel. The role requires cloud, hybrid environment, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, and cybersecurity exercise expertise, plus extensive customer engagement and 50–75% overnight travel.

Leads Microsoft’s anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance program for datacenter construction and infrastructure development. Responsibilities include designing compliance strategies, conducting books-and-records and transactional audits, performing risk assessments, strengthening controls, developing policies and playbooks, delivering training, monitoring risks, and driving remediation. The role partners with construction, engineering, procurement, legal, and senior leadership teams across global infrastructure programs.

Analyze attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, identify emerging threats, produce strategic and tactical intelligence, and recommend defensive improvements. Build threat-hunting tools, automations, and prototypes; use large-scale queries to investigate suspicious activity; develop detections; and communicate findings to engineering teams, customers, and technical or executive audiences. The role requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship verification.

Lead engineering for a hyperscale deployment platform serving Microsoft 365 services. Design and deliver scalable deployment features across the full software lifecycle, mentor engineers, and drive automation and AI-powered solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, performance, and operational excellence. Collaborate with product managers and partner teams while ensuring high-quality, maintainable, production-grade software.

Leads Microsoft Services Sales account strategy across assigned accounts, managing customer and partner relationships, qualifying and closing cloud, AI, consulting, and support opportunities. Drives renewals, upsells, multi-year agreements, deal execution, contract negotiations, forecasting, and sales-to-delivery handoffs. Coordinates virtual account teams, develops close plans using BANT, aligns services with customer priorities, and supports cloud adoption, AI transformation, security, and customer success.

Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft's Windows ML compiler stack. Design high-performance compiler infrastructure, execution engines, optimization frameworks, and developer tools supporting CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads. Drive NPU enablement, graph optimization, scheduling, memory management, code generation, and hardware abstraction. Partner with silicon vendors and internal teams, influence AI hardware and platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers developing on-device and generative AI capabilities.

Lead strategic customer engagements and complex sales for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. Build ROI-based business cases, develop use cases and competitive strategies, lead pitches, proof-of-concepts, and technical workshops, and close technical and business objectives. Expand partner capabilities, provide field enablement, and share market insights with engineering, go-to-market, and marketing teams.

Leads complex datacenter network infrastructure deployments across engineering, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders. Defines technical solutions, success criteria, risks, schedules, staging plans, implementation plans, metrics, and governance reporting. Manages roadmaps, field engagements, customer support, stakeholder expectations, budgets, contracts, and continuous-improvement initiatives while ensuring secure, reliable infrastructure delivery.

Leads complex network infrastructure and bare-metal deployment programs across datacenter environments. Partners with engineering and operations teams to design field-deployable solutions, manage roadmaps, schedules, budgets, contracts, risks, governance, stakeholder relationships, and performance metrics. Coordinates cross-functional teams and vendors, drives field deployments, supports high-security networks, and improves processes and execution.

Owns Microsoft’s Americas Telco partner strategy, sales performance, forecasting, and operating model across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Drives partner growth in Microsoft AI, Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams Phone, and Operator Connect. Builds executive relationships with Telco partners, aligns Microsoft field organizations, leads co-sell motions, governs KPIs and business reviews, and expands partner technical capabilities, investments, and cloud consumption.