SOC 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 looking for a SOC analyst to join its UK (Cheltenham) based SOC. The core responsibility is to perform investigations in response to security alerts, which includes data analytics. Your passion for finding creative approaches to security problems will shine as you gather evidence and build a picture of what transpired during your investigations. You will be responsible for fusing multiple sources of evidence to determine how a security incident occurred and what steps need to be taken to remediate it. You will also be responsible for building capabilities that close information gaps, strengthen our cloud defences, and defend customers from emerging security threats. The SOC is a fast-paced team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow. This role may include the need to work outside of core hours on high priority investigations and may also include on-call responsibilities.

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.
• Evaluate security risks and their impact to the Microsoft Cloud platform and its online services.
• Create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.
• Support cross company incidents and crisis.

Qualifications

○ Experience in working in a SOC
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○ Experience in a technical support/helpdesk environment and knowledge of cyber security
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A degree in an applicable subject, such as; Cyber Security or Computer Science.

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