Security Analyst

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 is seeking a skilled SOC Analyst to join its Security Operations Center (SOC) based in Cheltenham, UK. In this role, your primary responsibility will be investigating security alerts to uncover and analyze potential threats. Your creativity and problem-solving skills will be key as you collect evidence and piece together what occurred during security incidents.

You will leverage multiple evidence sources to determine how incidents happened and define the necessary steps for remediation. Additionally, you will play a critical role in enhancing security capabilities, closing information gaps, strengthening cloud defenses, and protecting customers from emerging threats.

 

As part of a dynamic and fast-paced team, this role offers continuous opportunities for growth and development. Be prepared to occasionally work outside standard hours for high-priority investigations and participate in on-call duties as required.

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

• Prioritize alerts and issues and perform triage to confirm security incidents.
• Performing analysis on true positive alerts to determine root cause and impact.
• Collaborate with teams to create and potentially execute incident mitigation and remediation plans.
• Create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.
• Support cross-country incidents.

Working Patterns:
• 9.30am to 6pm (GMT) - UK Winter Hours November to April
• 10.30am to 7pm (BST) - UK Summer Hours April to November
Weekend and bank holiday working will be required but will be provided back in leu.

Qualifications

A degree in an applicable subject, such as; Cyber Security or Computer Science. Prefered Qualifications: The following would be advantageous:
• Any of the following: CompTia Security +, BlueTeam Level 1, SANs GSEC, GCIH etc.
• Previous experience performing Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR). #CDO #MSSecurity #CDOC  

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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