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Work type: On-site
Location: US
Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 61 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1577 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Senior Security Operations Engineer on the Detection Engineering team within Microsoft’s CISO organization, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the company's cyber defense capabilities by maintaining high-availability detection pipelines and automation. Your daily tasks include authoring and enhancing high-fidelity detections, building and optimizing automation to accelerate the detection lifecycle, and evaluating and tuning detections to improve signal-to-noise ratios. You will also collaborate with product and service teams to develop metrics and dashboards that enhance alert fidelity and platform health. The role requires expertise in Microsoft Cloud Security Technologies such as Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, and Azure Log Analytics, along with hands-on experience using SQL, KQL, Python, and PowerBI for large-scale data analysis and automation. This position demands a strong background in software development lifecycle, threat modeling, and security incident management to address the complex digital threats facing Microsoft’s diverse customer base.

Skills

Azure Sentinel Azure Defender MDE KQL Python SQL Jupyter Notebook Spark R U-SQL Splunk PowerBI Azure Log Analytics CI/CD MITRE Azure AAD Azure Resources Event logs Firewall Azure Data Explorer

What you'll do

Operate and maintain high availability detection pipelines for reliable signal flow.
Author and enhance high-fidelity detections including enrichments and filtering.
Build automation to accelerate the detection lifecycle and coverage expansion.
Evaluate and tune detections to reduce noise and improve signal-to-noise ratio.
Develop and maintain detection rules, metrics, and dashboards for improved alert fidelity.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field AND 4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security.
Master's Degree in a relevant field AND 3+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security.
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
Experience with MITRE attack frameworks and closing gaps in detection capabilities.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Cloud Security Technologies like Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, MDE, etc.

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