Senior Security Operations Engineer

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 a critical priority 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 secure 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, 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’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.

Aligning with Microsofts mission and the focus of the Microsoft Security organization, this role is an integral part of a larger team dedicated to delivering world-class security operations that contain and evict threat actor activities.

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

• Coordinates with investigators to prioritize investigation objectives, understands attack paths, and systematically executes mitigation and protection actions to evict threat actors for any security incident impacting any of Microsoft’s products or services
• Conducts hands-on mitigation where possible; engages service owners when there is a risk of a production outage
• Maintains hands-on knowledge of mitigation and protection steps for various asset types (e.g. M365, Azure, AI) and publishes self-service guidance for impacted engineering teams
• Briefs executive stakeholders on eviction plans and associated status
• Maintains and evolves an inventory of threat actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the corresponding eviction capabilities
• Define and prioritize requirements and use cases for Microsoft’s threat actor eviction platform; operationalize as they are delivered
• Drives strategic change to accelerate eviction scenarios (e.g. lean business cases to garner support for broader Microsoft product initiatives or features).
• Participates in an on-call rotation
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters 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

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience working in cybersecurity incident response
• Hands-on experience with incident response in Azure or Microsoft 365
• Proficient with Kusto data query languages
• Ability to work under pressure, structure unstructured problems and provide clarity where ambiguity exists
• Ability to operate with autonomy, influence others, and a bias for action
  
  

OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements 

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

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.

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