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GRC Senior Security Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 23, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world." We are looking for a GRC Senior Security Engineer to join our team and help strengthen trust with customers while enabling the business to move quickly and responsibly. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across functions, evaluate security risks including technical concepts, hands-on experience working with or implementing security controls, and acting as a connector between teams. You will engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to support security and compliance discussions, contribute to architecture reviews, provide detailed input on contract and customer documentation while helping to deliver clear, consistent messaging around risk, controls and commitments. The right candidate brings subject matter expertise in security, a strong understanding of core principles and frameworks, and the ability to adapt in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Success in the role means being a trusted partner - someone who can balance business priorities with sound technical and expert judgement, who communicates well across disciples, and who thrives on collaborative problem-solving. 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.
Responsibilities Serve as a primary security and privacy liaison for both pre- and post-sales engagements while owning internal delivery and cross-team execution of security commitments, collaborating with Sales, Sales Support, Legal, and Engineering to address customer security and compliance concerns.Lead the completion of customer security questionnaires, RFPs, RFIs, and due diligence assessments, ensuring timely and accurate responses.Participate in customer meetings and calls to explain security architecture, data protection practices, and compliance posture.Support contract negotiation and redline security terms.Manage customer-facing audits and assurance engagements, including evidence preparation, documentation, and on-site/virtual support.Evaluate technical security controls and processes to ensure compliance with Microsoft and industry standards Act as a controls and compliance subject matter expert to the business, providing guidance and to internal teams Identify risks through assessment and collaborate with business stakeholders to develop and track remediation plans Facilitate remediation of identified risks in collaboration with stakeholders.Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security controls into system and application designs.Provide technical assurance for new and existing solutions, ensuring robust authentication, authorization, data protection, and monitoring capabilities.Act as a key point of contact for security incidents, coordinating response efforts and customer communications.Ensure timely triage, investigation, and resolution of customer-reported issues.Act as a bridge between Security, Engineering, Legal, and Sales teams to ensure consistent messaging and alignment on customer commitments.Provide security guidance to internal teams, including Sales, Engineering, and Sales Support.Maintain and share security documentation, FAQs, and best practices to support consistent messaging and enablement.Drive automation and workflow improvements across security processes, including leading implementation with internal tooling or partners.Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with customers and key internal/external stakeholders by acting as a reliable security advisor, understanding their business needs, and proactively addressing concerns.Document and standardize security and compliance responses, workflows, and reference materials to support internal scalabilityMicrosoft'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. Embody our culture and values | |