Microsoft Senior Security Engineer 

Ireland, Dublin 

878354857

As a group, CO+I is focused on personal and professional development for all employees and offers trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

Required Qualifications:

• Significant experience in 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.
• Strong background in Firewalls or Intrusion detection or prevention systems.

Background Check 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.

While not required, we also look for the following
Preferred Qualifications:

• SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, PCCSE, PCNSE, PCSAE, CCNP Security, CCIE Security and/or Security+ certification.
• Palo Alto firewalls, Azure Firewalls or any other firewall experience.
• SIEM/SOAR/XDR experiences like Sentinel, XSOAR, etc.
• Any experience with industrial control systems is preferred (not mandatory)
• Automation scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify and investigate potential issues and patterns in security controls and drive mitigation strategies, while also implementing automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the network.
• Engineer, install, upgrade, and maintain network security hardware, operating system and software like Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, etc.
• Identify gaps in security policy and administration, recommend solutions, and implement new and revised security standards, while working with partner teams to drive consistency and awareness.
• Maintain standards and drive improvements for our customer and partner experience, responding appropriately to emerging issues and advocating for our customer experience through development and analyzation of key metrics, performance indicators, and other data sources (e.g. bugs, unhealthy data pipeline). Respond to escalations and recommend improvements as appropriate to address gaps.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support security services.
• With minimal guidance, analyze attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and, alongside partner teams, create recommendations to limit exposure, implement response plans, and take action.
• Analyze potential or actual intrusions identified from monitoring activities and create detections based on available data (e.g., Indicators of Compromise [IOC] and Tools Tactics Procedures [TTP]).

Other

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