Security Analyst II Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Job Description

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft 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. The Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) 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.

Job Responsibility

Perform investigation on suspected vulnerable or compromised assets and services, and analyze log data and other artifacts to determine what occurred
Identify potential issues with detection (e.g., false positives, noise)
Analyze potential or actual intrusions identified as a result of monitoring activities
Create detections based on available data (e.g., Indicators of Compromise [IOC] and Tools Tactics Procedures [TTP])
Plan and execute proactive adversary hunt for malicious activity using myriad log sources, network- and host-based tools, and threat intelligence to identify the threat actors and their tools and techniques
Analyze key metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other data sources (e.g., bugs, unhealthy data pipeline) and identifies trends in security issues and escalates appropriately
Recommend improvements and/or metrics to address gaps in measurement
Proactively identify and investigate potential issues in controls (e.g., network, identity, etc.)
Leverage expertise and team members to address and drive down issues accordingly
Identify and/or recognize patterns and recommend potential mitigation strategies
Identify and raise opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Create automation as appropriate to drive greater efficiency with high value

Requirements

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) 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 Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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 equivalent experience
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements pre-offer and post-hire
Verification of U.S. citizenship

Nice to have

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field 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, or anomaly detection OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection OR equivalent experience
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