Security Operations Engineer

Security 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. We are looking for a Security Engineer to join our team focused on protecting Microsoft’s customers operating in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance etc.

Our team is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and compliant security solutions that address the unique challenges faced by highly regulated sectors. In this role, you will collaborate closely with engineering, compliance, and product teams to ensure security is built into the core of our services, supporting industry-specific frameworks like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and more. You will lead efforts in threat detection and incident readiness, helping to drive Microsoft’s commitment to trusted cloud services. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, a solid security background, and a passion for enabling secure digital transformation for some of the world’s most sensitive and critical environments.

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

• Analyze security alerts and incidents.
•  Lead incident response, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts.
•  Document and report findings.
•  Develop and implement security controls and automation.
•  Monitor threat intelligence feeds for emerging risks and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
•  Experience: 1-3 years in Security Operations (SOC), Incident Response, or Threat Intelligence.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud security (Azure/AWS), and vulnerability management.
•  Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, PowerShell) for security automation.
•  Experience with secure coding practices and integrating security into DevOps pipelines.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
•  Industry certifications such as SC-100, CEH, Security+ (preferred).

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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