Senior Detection Engineer - CTJ - POLY

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.

Microsoft Security is looking for a Security Detection Engineer for our U.S. Government Cloud. As a Security Detection Engineer, you will work as part of a team that streamlines security data collection and alerting to deliver actionable insights for our security team. You will play a critical role in protecting the cloud, and highly sensitive customer data, against all threats. Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, security analysis, big data, pen testing, and machine learning. The successful candidate will have a passion for cybersecurity, data analytics, and data science. They will also possess strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills.

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

• Apply knowledge of attacker techniques to uncover threats by analyzing log data resulting in the development and tuning of detections.
• Aggregate signals from multiple sources and platforms to infer and detect attacker techniques.
• Utilize software engineering fundamentals to ensure consistent and repeatable delivery of high quality/high fidelity detections.
• Craft complex queries against a variety of log sources to isolate concerning/anomalous behavior that could be crafted into a detection.
• Execute the dev-sec-ops approach to software delivery by designing, coding, testing, deploying, and operating components of the Microsoft Cloud security monitoring systems.
• Think holistically about the threat landscape in our cloud(s) and use this understanding to evolve our monitoring posture.

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), and information technology (IT) operations
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:   

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 2+ year experience writing detections within big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel

• Skilled working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebooks, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, Scala, and PowerBI.

• Experience with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management.

• Experience developing and operationalizing data science insights to aid in solving cybersecurity challenges.

• Exposure to security-related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, and penetration testing.

• Experience using red team reports to inform incident response and detection development.

• Experience with threat modeling and designing purple team engagements to evaluate detection efficacy.

• Experience with software engineering tools such as CI/CD, Azure DevOps, git, and Agile Scrum.

• Background/familiarity with AI, prompt engineering, and Large Language Models.

• Experience with Windows, Azure, and O365.

• Certifications such as GCIA, GSLC, GCIH, CISM, CISSP, CEH, etc. are a plus.

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 18, 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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