Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Cybersecurity

Microsoft

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TL;DR · Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Cybersecurity

As a Senior Cloud Solution Architect in Cybersecurity for Microsoft Federal, you will lead defender-focused capabilities within large-scale cyber exercises, designing workflows, training objectives, and evaluation criteria that enhance real-world security operations. Your daily tasks include ensuring all defender activities align with realistic mission requirements, facilitating daily briefings to prevent analytical detours, and translating complex technical tradecraft into clear narratives for senior leadership. You will also drive business outcomes by translating exercise results into actionable recommendations, improving customer security tools adoption, and mentoring junior team members in defensive tradecraft. This role requires expertise in cybersecurity operations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response, along with a strong understanding of telemetry analysis across various environments. Ideal candidates have experience applying AI/ML to cyber defense and facilitating after-action reports for executive-level stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Own the design of defender-facing content, ensuring alignment with realistic security operations and customer mission requirements.
  • Align exercise scope, objectives, and communications with stakeholders; manage blue team operations schedule and represent program in briefings.
  • Translate complex technical tradecraft into clear narratives for senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Drive business outcomes by translating exercise results into actionable recommendations for improving customer security operations.
  • Develop and govern defender-facing content to improve detection coverage, response effectiveness, and learning materials post-exercise.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in defensive cyber operations within enterprise or U.S. Federal settings.
  • Proven ability to design and execute proactive threat hunting and reactive incident response workflows.
  • Strong detection engineering skills, including developing and iterating on detection logic and methodologies.
  • Expertise in translating operational activity into improved security tradecraft and playbooks.
  • Experience leading after-action reports and facilitating knowledge transfer with customer teams.
  • Deep understanding of telemetry analysis across various environments (identity, endpoint, network).
  • Ability to apply AI/ML and GenAI technologies to enhance defensive cyber operations.

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