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Posted date: Dec 15, 2025
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Category: Security Operations Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewThe 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 Production Tenant Management team is dedicated to securing the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services including platforms like Office, Exchange, Entra, Defender, and Azure. Our team specializes in Entra tenant management with an emphasis on identity, authentications, Entra applications, and governance.
We are looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer to help scale tenant management across hundreds of Entra tenants and reduce security risk to Microsoft as a whole. In this role, your primary focus will be to work with product groups, global admins, and application governance dev team to design, operate, and govern an application governance platform. Additionally, you'll have opportunities to work on a wide breadth of tenant management challenges spanning identity and access management to incident response.
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.
Responsibilities
-Govern Entra the end-to-end Entra application lifecycle for Entra tenants. This includes defining the specifications and features required for an application governance platform to succeed at scale.
-Defining Entra application policies and executing policy enforcement and risk reduction.
-Automation to scale to manage hundreds of tenants across multiple Azure clouds.
-General Entra tenant governance which includes things like Conditional Access Policies, Azure Policies, Custom Roles, etc. in addition to the core focus area of Entra applications.
Qualifications
-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.
Preferred Qualifiations:
-Extensive hands-on experience in security operations, preferably with a focus on identity and access management.
-Strong understanding of Entra tenant management, authentication, authorization, and governance best practices.
-Data driven approach to problem solving (must be able to perform basic queries).
-Demonstrated ability to analyze and respond to complex security incidents in a timely manner.
-Ability to balance security principles with business needs.-Security certifications (e.g. CISSP, GIAC, etc.).
-Experience with managing security incidents.
Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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