An opportunity to influence the security of services that are going to positively impact millions of Microsoft's customers is rare and is here. Microsoft's COSINE, Devices and Gaming Security (CDG Sec) is on the journey of delighting millions of customers by providing a unified experience across thousands of system and hundreds of services to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. CDG Sec Blue Team is an integral part of the service fabric with the mission of catering world-class security operations to service teams and in turn protect the customer information from unauthorized use. We blend security and operations into a unified practice by providing the security monitoring services at a high bar in the life cycle of security controls: protect, detect, investigate and remediate. CDG Sec Blue Team is looking for a security service engineer II to design, implement, and evolve the security monitoring tools and technologies used by CDG Sec. The role is ideal
Automating repeatable, manual tasks such as monitoring onboarding, asset deployment, and service (re)configuration Optimizing the health and performance of CDG Sec's security telemetry pipeline Building new monitoring and analytic services from the ground up Optimizing existing services for reliability, performance, and cost Tailoring data collection for Azure-based assets, from the maintenance and operating system plane, to the application and service plane Writing, updating and leveraging code that connects disparate monitoring systems, message buses and APIs Serving as a SME for security platforms
Requirements/Qualifications: Candidate must have at least 2 years experience deploying, configuring, optimizing, and engineering open source technologies on Linux in an enterprise setting Package and software management + distribution, building distributable code from source (RPM, DEB) Kernel parameter and kernel module optimization Service management Centralized authentication (LDAP, AD, SSSD, Kerberos) Configuration management, orchestration and desired state configuration using a tool such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible General scripting and automation with BASH and Python In addition, the