Microsoft

Security Operations Engineer - Cloud Security

Microsoft • $102K — $202K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field with 1+ year in cyber security or related roles.
  • Bachelor's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field with 2+ years experience or equivalent in cyber security.
  • Experience in Operations Incident Response, Security Operations Center detection and threat analytics is essential.
  • Ability to fulfill Microsoft and government security screening requirements.
  • Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, GCIH, OSCP, among others.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify and address security issues while suggesting automation opportunities.
  • Install, upgrade, and maintain security hardware and software.
  • Evaluate and improve security policies and standards in collaboration with partner teams.
  • Enhance customer experience by responding to issues and analyzing performance metrics.
  • Support security services through on-call rotation participation.
  • Analyze security incidents and work with teams to create response strategies.
  • Design and implement cloud security controls with minimal supervision.
  • Drive automation in Infrastructure-as-Code to enhance security processes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching to assist with retirement savings.
  • Paid parental leave and family support initiatives.
  • Robust learning opportunities, including professional development and training.
  • Employee stock purchase plan to encourage investment in the company.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify and investigate potential issues and patterns in security controls and recommend mitigation strategies, while also surfacing opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the network.
  • Install, upgrade, and maintain security hardware, operating system and software.
  • Identify gaps in security policy and administration, recommend solutions, and implement new and revised security standards, while working with partner teams to drive consistency and awareness.
  • Maintain standards and drive improvements for our customer and partner experience, responding appropriately to emerging issues and advocating for our customer experience through analyzing key metrics, performance indicators, and other data sources (e.g. bugs, unhealthy data pipeline). Escalate, recommend improvements as appropriate to address gaps.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support security services.
  • With minimal guidance, analyze attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and, alongside partner teams, create recommendations to limit exposure, implement response plans, and take action.
  • Analyze potential or actual intrusions identified from monitoring activities and create detections based on available data (e.g., Indicators of Compromise [IOC] and Tools Tactics Procedures [TTP]).
  • Design, deploy, and operate cloud security controls including WAF, NSG, Azure Firewall, Defender for Cloud, PIM, Key Vault, and network isolation patterns - with minimal supervision
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure Policy) to enforce baselines, eliminate manual toil, and make cloud-security changes auditable and repeatable at fleet scale.
  • Investigate and resolve cloud-security incidents in your area of ownership, participate in the on-call rotation, and lead postmortems that convert findings into durable engineering improvements.


Other
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response OR equivalent experience.

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, PCCSE, PCNSE, PCSAE, CCNP Security, CCIE Security and/or Security+ certification.
  • Any experience with industrial control systems is preferred (not mandatory)


Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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