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We are looking for a Security Operation Engineer to join our team. Are you passionate about cybersecurity and eager to protect vital cloud resources? Do you dream of developing cutting-edge security tools with the latest technologies? If so, the Azure Edge and Platform Cloud Security team wants you!

We are looking for a Security Operations Engineer who is enthusiastic about safeguarding and monitoring large-scale cloud and hybrid resources. Our work is crucial to advancing Edge and Platform, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, ensuring Microsoft delivers secure products to our customers.

Join us and become a key player in protecting some of Microsoft’s most critical assets. You'll help design innovative automation and tooling solutions using AI/ML and other state-of-the-art technologies to stay ahead of cyber threats. Be part of our mission to build the future of cybersecurity and outpace an ever-evolving threat landscape.

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.

Responsibilities

• Write secure code that focuses on quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance.

• Partner with other cloud security engineers to build next generation automation and monitoring solutions.

• Partner with our offensive security team to understand the latest threats and help build mitigation via automation.

• Utilize DevSecOps methods to design code, test, deploy, and operate security tooling and monitoring solutions.

• Participate in threat model reviews and threat hunting activities.

• Participate in on-call rotation

• Work in a culture of continuous exploration, improvement, adaptation, and growth

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ 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), information technology (IT), and operations incident response

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with ML and AI technologies, custom model development, and prompt engineering

• Experience with one or more of the following: Azure, AWS, GCP, or any other large cloud provider security best practices.

• Familiar one or more of the following: STRIDE, NIST, Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark(MCSB), MITRE Att&ck, FedRamp frameworks.

• Experience building secure cloud-scale infrastructure with code

• Familiar with infrastructure as code languages/services ARM, Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation

• Familiar with threat hunting, penetration testing, SoC operations.

• One of the following certifications CISSP, Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

• Familiar with cloud networking technologies, routing protocols, and software defined networking.

• Experience with SIEM tooling (Splunk, Azure Sentinel, or similar)

• Solid coding, debugging, design, and problem-solving skills

• Experience with modern authentication technologies (AAD, Fido2, WebAuthN, OATH2, etc.)

Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 September 10, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .