Senior 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 seeking a highly skilled Senior Security Operations Engineer to join our Information Protection team and enhance the security of sensitive data by developing and implementing advanced micro-segmentation strategies across all tenants. The candidate will play a pivotal role in reducing the attack surface, containing lateral movement, building intelligence and visibility for hunting teams, and preventing outward data exfiltration. The selected candidate will lead, collaborate, and engage within a highly functional and dynamic organization, including key partners.

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

• Develop and implement micro-segmentation threat visibility capabilities using the Illumio tooling and Kusto dashboards to identify high-risk patterns and topology mapping.
• Enable micro-segmentation capabilities to partition Azure networks and reducing the attack surface across all tenants.
• Deploy Illumio quarantining solutions to contain lateral threat movement within critical application flows across the Corporate tenant.
• Define and maintain a micro-segmentation label schema.
• Develop Azure engineering strategies to support micro-segmentation software full-stack implementation.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response 
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Azure Functions, and Azure Automation.
• Experience with Azure services, including Azure Synapse, Kusto, Azure SQL, and Azure monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of network engineering and security principles with understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Graph API.

Other 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification.
• Five or more years of experience in cybersecurity, preferably within a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) team.

Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 10th 2025.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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