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Posted date: Jul 08, 2025
Category: Security Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
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.The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Protect team manages Entra tenants for all Microsoft Cloud. We are looking to hire a Security Operations Engineer II who will join our mission of protecting Microsoft Cloud by building and operating security services that will enforce security policies across thousands of services. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft and leverage your insights to protect Microsoft services and customers. Your primary focus will be to design, develop, and maintain scalable user lifecycle management systems & expanding our managed environments to meet business requirements.
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.
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.
Own and drive the vision, roadmap, and execution for Production Tenants Application Governance security initiativesPartner closely with engineering teams to build, optimize, and maintain data ingestion and validation for identity, security, and risk insights.Develop a deep understanding of the Application Governance, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution for Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure services.Use data to define and assert production service isolation.Work with our engineering, data platform, penetration testing, incident response teams, and business leaders to ensure that learnings from security incidents are prioritized and remediated.Collaborate closely with M365, Azure, and other security teams across Microsoft, as well as service teams to roll out the latest security policies with the right level of automation and enforcement.Define key success metrics and craft data-focused tracking of solution health and adoption.Report on project status in various reviews, partner briefings, & security conferences.
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Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications: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 responseOR a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field3+ years of experience working with large-scale data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and analytics platforms (e.g., Kusto, Azure Data Explorer, Synapse, Spark)3+ years of experience working in Power BI or similar technologiesOther 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.Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.OR a Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field4+ years of experience shipping large scale software.Experience in security analytics, identity data, risk assessment.Familiarity with Azure Data Services, Log Analytics, and cloud-based security telemetry.Passion for working on technical challenges and willingness to get your hands dirty to get the job done.Proven ability to influence and drive strategies across a large organization.Proven ability to set a vision and deliver and communicate solutions to complex technical problems.A sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, craftsmanship & completeness.Experience working across organizations/divisions, and bringing people together to achieve the goal.Experience in Entra, Azure, IAM and secrets management space is a 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 July 14, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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