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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
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Senior Network Security Engineer
The Senior Network Security Engineer joins the Microsoft Specialized Clouds team to design, deploy, and operate network security monitoring capabilities for sovereign and government cloud environments. This role involves building telemetry pipelines, developing detections and alerts, and managing infrastructure such as firewalls, proxies, and traffic inspection solutions. The engineer will analyze packet captures, firewall logs, and flow data to support threat investigations while providing operational ownership and incident leadership for critical services. Key technical requirements include experience with Infrastructure as Code, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, or ARM, alongside AI-enabled capabilities to improve detection engineering and alert correlation. The position focuses on solving security visibility challenges within highly regulated environments by integrating telemetry into monitoring platforms and creating dashboards to measure compliance posture and service reliability across cloud and hybrid network architectures.