Overview

The Cloud & AI 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 one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Security represents the most critical priority for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Defense Operations 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. Microsoft Defense Operations 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.

The Detection Engineering team in the CISO organization at Microsoft is seeking a motivated and self-driven security engineer to join a growing team of detection engineers, data scientists and automation engineers. We are looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer to join our team!

The mission of the Detection Engineering (DE) team is to advance Microsoft's cyber defense capabilities through a strategic, proactive and holistic detection engineering approach. DE is committed to delivering effective and scalable detection solutions that enhance Microsoft's security posture and maintain a secure environment for Microsoft and our customers.

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

• Operate and maintain high availability detection pipelines and automation, ensuring reliable end to end signal flow.
• Author, onboard, and continuously enhance high fidelity detections including enrichments, filtering and correlation.
• Build and optimize automation that accelerates detection lifecycle, onboarding, tuning, and coverage expansion.
• Evaluate and tune detections proactively and reactively to reduce noise, improve SNR, and shorten investigation time.
• Develop and maintain detection rules, telemetry requirements, metrics, and dashboards, collaborating with product and service teams to improve alert fidelity, visibility, and platform health.

Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.

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:
• 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

Perferred Qualifications:

• Security Monitoring and Response: You have experience with MITRE or other attack frameworks and how to use it to identify and close gaps in detection capabilities.
• Security Architecture and Cloud Security expertise: 3+ years working in cyber security (Information Security, Info Sec, Sec Ops, Security Operations, SOC, CSOC, analyst, researcher, etc.) with experience in automation of analysis, response, or forensics.
• Previous experience in applying knowledge to uncover threats based on log data within Cloud Service Provider (CSP) environments (Azure AAD, Azure Resources, Event logs, Firewall, etc.) To build, analyze, and tune detections.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Cloud Security Technologies such as Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, MDE,  Application Governance , Defender for Cloud Apps, Azure Data Explorer and Azure Log Analytics or similar products like Arc Sight, Splunk and Logstash; excellent understanding of prioritizing risk and threats.
• Automated Response and insights: Experience working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI and ability to automate repeatable security tasks through scripts or logic apps.
• Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed.

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Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.