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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 remains a critical priority 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 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. As a Senior Security Operations Engineer, you will play a pivotal role improving security within Microsoft. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the safety and integrity of some of the world’s most critical assets. Your focus will be on establishing the strategy and implementation of key initiatives related to endpoint security. 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.
Job Responsibility
Develop and implement solutions for secure operation of business critical productivity scenarios inclusive of device permissions and client-side applications
Understand and investigate emerging endpoint related security risks and recommend prioritization for defense-building capabilities
Leverage technical knowledge of Entra, Intune, Defender for Endpoint, and Defender for Cloud to enhance security measures and protocols
Identify and raise opportunities for automation and AI-native solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Embody our culture and values
Requirements
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, 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 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 OR equivalent experience
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have
Experience with AI and specifically theoretical and practical knowledge of LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and agent orchestration frameworks
Experience defining and using data to drive decisions and improve security outcomes
Experience solving problems with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks
Experience effectively communicating complex security concepts to diverse audiences
Experience collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve security objectives
Experience in managing identity and authentication systems or Identity isolation