Microsoft 365 continues to experience incredible growth as the company focuses on its productivity cloud strategy and enabling secure remote work for its customers. As part of Microsoft Engineering, The FastTrack team has a primary role driving this strategy and is looking for individuals that share in the passion to drive business value and customer success using Microsoft 365 and related technologies. To successfully deliver this, FastTrack is constantly pursuing new ideas and approaches to engage with our customers to get them to work smarter, faster, and more securely every day.

The Microsoft 365 FastTrack Secure Infrastructure team builds and manages the common infrastructure that is used across FastTrack in partnership with the teams that develop on and utilize the infrastructure. This team operates in a global model. This is an exciting opportunity for a Security Operations Engineer to be part of this team.

This role suppots 100% remote work within the United States.

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.

Responsibilities

• You will ensure accuracy and comprehensiveness in security policy, and design mitigation strategies for identified gaps. You’ll also collaborate with internal and external parties to ensure service level agreements are reached when addressing threats.

• You will design for the customer experience by sharing best practices, interacting directly with customers, and resolving issues. You’ll also recommend mitigation strategies based on identified security trends.

• Under guidance, you will analyze specific aspects of attempts to compromise systems security. You’ll also use monitoring techniques to identify intrustions.

• You will understand how weaponized code can be used and recommend potential detections and signatures for defense capabilities.

• Design evolving common infrastructure architecture for our organization.

• Support development teams with securing applications and services.

• You will stay relevant with emerging Azure features including risk and security principles.

• Partner with engineering, program management and operations personnel within the FastTrack organization implementing secure infrastructure improvements to processes and technologies.

• Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required 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.

• Experienced with security policy, security trends and mitigation strategies.

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.

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+.

Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 December 19, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .