Microsoft Senior Security Engineer 

United States, Washington 

69573445

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ 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.

• 3+ years of experience with writing tools, automation / scripting (Powershell, Python or similar) AND programming (C++, C# or equivalent object oriented programming language)
• Experiecne making enhancements in subcomponents within and around services/products to deliver and manage software in production.
• Experience with Azure services and capabilities (and/or other cloud platforms like AWS).
• Experience with PKI & Cryptography AND auth process with Entra technologies AND experience with networking, DNS, IP protocols, firewalls, and load balancer concepts.
• Required written and verbal communication skills - can scale your written and oral communication from other developers up to leadership AND can effectively manage and prioritize multiple tasks in accordance with high level objectives/projects.
• Willing to work as part of an on-call rotation to mitigate security incidents.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Any of the following preferred: CCNA, CSYA+, Network ++ and CEH.
• Good knowledge of ARM artifacts and industry standard deployment methodologies.
• Experience with metrics related to service availability and security fundamentals.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 10, 2025.

• Evaluate and implement automation and tooling security solutions to ensure consistent processes and tasks are performed with a high level of accuracy and reduced defects.

• Evaluate and contribute to service design and architecture to improve the security posture of the cloud service.

• Shape security strategies, review threat models, service specifications used by the service.

• Work individually and with teams to drive security goals and objectives across services.

• Perform security assessment of existing systems and code and drive remediations.

• Implement and manage appropriate access control policies to ensure compliance with security requirements.

• Identify security problems and recommend monitoring solutions & automation to improve the security posture of our service offering.

• 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 on the Microsoft platform and its online services.

• Create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.

• Previous experience in creating SIEM use cases, Complex KQL queries and creating playbooks