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Security Operations Engineer - Cloud Security

Microsoft
Redmond, USA
Full-time
Junior · 2+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago

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Proactively identify and investigate potential issues and patterns in security controls and recommend mitigation strategies, while also surfacing opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the network. Install, upgrade, and maintain security hardware, operating system and software. Identify gaps in security policy and administration, recommend solutions, and implement new and revised security standards, while working with partner teams to drive consistency and awareness. Maintain standards and drive improvements for our customer and partner experience, responding appropriately to emerging issues and advocating for our customer experience through analyzing key metrics, performance indicators, and other data sources (e.g. bugs, unhealthy data pipeline). Escalate, recommend improvements as appropriate to address gaps. Participate in on-call rotation to support security services. With minimal guidance, analyze attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and, alongside partner teams, create recommendations to limit exposure, implement response plans, and take action. Analyze potential or actual intrusions identified from monitoring activities and create detections based on available data (e.g., Indicators of Compromise [IOC] and Tools Tactics Procedures [TTP]). Design, deploy, and operate cloud security controls including WAF, NSG, Azure Firewall, Defender for Cloud, PIM, Key Vault, and network isolation patterns — with minimal supervision Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure Policy) to enforce baselines, eliminate manual toil, and make cloud-security changes auditable and repeatable at fleet scale. Investigate and resolve cloud-security incidents in your area of ownership, participate in the on-call rotation, and lead postmortems that convert findings into durable engineering improvements. Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s)

Experience

in 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 2+ years experience in 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. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, PCCSE, PCNSE, PCSAE, CCNP Security, CCIE Security and/or Security+ certification. Any experience with industrial control systems is preferred (not mandatory)

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