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Posted date: Mar 31, 2025
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Category: Security Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $128,250
Range: $81,900 - $174,600
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security 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 Security 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.Would you like to be the guardian of the most critical services at Microsoft? Does the idea of working on cutting edge technology to defend against cyberattacks excite you? Our team’s charter is to protect the most critical services at Microsoft, aka the Trusted Computing Base (TCB), by driving isolation from other services and continuously improving services’ security based on learnings from attacks. We anticipate potential threats to these services and the customer data in them and drive technological changes and innovation to mitigate them. Our team is dynamic and there is constant room for learning and growth, as we race to keep out well-meaning pen-test teams and the not-so-well-meaning external attackers and nation state threat actors.
We are looking for a Security Operations Engineer with proficient skills to protect the identities that make up the inner sanctum of critical services at Microsoft. If you are passionate about cloud services, identity protections, cyberattacks, and contributing to the future of Microsoft Cloud security – this team is for you.
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.
Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.
• Learn about the structure and make up of the most critical Microsoft Cloud services
• Study relevant cyberattacks and define key security outcomes needed to protect the TCB
• Collaborate with key partners and stakeholders across the team, Azure, and M365 to measure security impact and ship service updates that mitigate security risk
• Help run the TCB program by running weekly rhythm of business meetings that drive security outcomes
• Report on project status in various reviews, partner briefings, & security conferences.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:1+ year(s) 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 responseOR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related fieldOR equivalent experienceOther Qualifications:
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.Preferred Qualifications:
Passion for working on technical challengesAbility to influence and drive strategies across a large organization.Ability to set vision, deliver and communicate solutions to complex technical problems.Ability for personal accountability for end-to-end quality, craftsmanship & completeness.Experience working across organizations/divisions, and bringing people together to achieve the goalExperience in IAM and secrets management space.
Security Operations Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 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 April 7th, 2025.
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