Job Details
Posted date: Aug 07, 2025
There have been 2 jobs posted with the title of Security Analyst II all time at Microsoft.There have been 2 Security Analyst II jobs posted in the last month.
Category: Security Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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.We are looking for a Security Analyst II to help us grow our team of security professionals to protect our customers against all threats by delivering & managing effective investigations. Do you have a passion for data and security, comfortable with ambiguity and acceptance of the need to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure, combined with a proven ability to sift through data datasets to extract valuable insights. If so, then this might be the role for you.
This team will leverage the billions of signals surfaced across our services in Azure, M365, Azure Active Directory (AAD), and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), conducting cutting edge threat research, state of the art ML/AI and human expertise to fully analyze and investigate potential abuse, adversary activity and a multitude of other potential malicious and nefarious activity on our platform. 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’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.
As a Security Analyst II, you will:
Respond to and investigate sophisticated threats with information from a wide variety of sources, and ensure similar scenarios are prevented in the future.Perform forensic investigation on suspected compromised assets and analyze log data to determine what occurred.Collaborate with the team to create adversary eviction and incident remediation plans.Analyze and improve situational awareness, monitoring coverage, and incident response capabilities.Investigate, analyze and eradicate threats proactively.Design, develop, and deliver tooling to assist the investigative process and create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.OR 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.3+ years of experience working with adversary & cyber intel frameworks such as kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and Diamond Model.3+ years' experience with big data and Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel.3+ years' experience working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI
Other 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.Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.OR 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection. CISSP CISA CISM SANS GCIA GCIH OSCP Security+.Previous experience performing development and code debugging with functional or object-oriented programming such as .NET or Java.Expectation to learn new tools and techniques every day. - Good working knowledge of common security, encryption, and protocols such as encryption, PKI, modern authentication and cloud app authorization architectures and protocols such as SAML or OAUTH.Past experience working in large scale enterprise products: Azure or M365 products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, Teams.Deep and practical OS security/internals knowledge for Linux and Windows.Exposure to security related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and malware analysis.Ability to rapidly automate data handling and data curation using PowerShell, Python, Azure Data Factory, and various Azure-based tools.Hands-on experience building Azure-based services with Azure Resource Manager (ARM), ARM templates, ARM policy, IaaS, VMSS, KeyVault, EventHub, Azure Active Directory (AAD), etc.Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Azure DevOps and Agile Scrum.Certifications like GCIA, GSLC, GCIH, CISM, CISSP, CEH, etc. are plus.
Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 August 20, 2025.
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