The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is looking for a Security Detection Engineer for our U.S. Government Cloud. MSRC seeks motivated, experienced security professionals to join our team. There are few places in Microsoft that have as much direct impact as the Microsoft Security Response Center's Security Operations Center (SOC) and Incident Response Teams. The MSRC SOC is the front line that defends our customers who use Microsoft's Cloud platform and online services. The government security team further specializes in defending national security objectives supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and civilian agencies.

Do you have a passion for cybersecurity, data analytics, and data science? As a Security Detection Engineer in MSRC, you will work as part of a team that streamlines security data collection and alerting to deliver actionable insights for our security team. You will have the opportunity to play a critical role in protecting the cloud and highly sensitive customer data, against all threats.

Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, security analysis, big data, and machine learning. We delight in digging in deep to analyze the billions of events and terabytes of data generated each day by all the Microsoft Cloud services for evidence of suspicious activity.

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

• Apply knowledge of attacker techniques to uncover threats by analyzing log data resulting in the development and tuning of detections.
• Aggregate signals from multiple sources and platforms to infer and detection attacker techniques.
• Utilize software engineering fundamentals to ensure consistent and repeatable delivery of high quality/high fidelity detections.
• Code and script in C#, PowerShell, Python, and various low-code or no-code platforms.
• Execute the dev-sec-ops approach to software delivery by designing, coding, testing, deploying, and operating components of the Microsoft Cloud security monitoring systems.
• Embody our Culture and Values
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ year(s) 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.
• o OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
  

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position requires that the selected candidate pass the Microsoft background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state and/or local United States government agency customers. As such, this position is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, other approved documents, or verified U.S. Government security clearance.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience writing detections within big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel.
• Skilled working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebooks, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, Scala, and PowerBI.
• Experience with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management.
• Experience developing and operationalizing data science insights to aid in solving cybersecurity challenges.
• Exposure to security-related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, and penetration testing.
• Experience using red team reports to inform incident response and detection development.
• Experience with threat modeling and designing purple team engagements to evaluate detection efficacy.
• Experience with software engineering tools such as CI/CD, Azure DevOps, git, and Agile Scrum.
• Background/familiarity with AI, prompt engineering, and Large Language Models.
• Experience with Windows, Azure, and O365.
• Certifications such as GCIA, GSLC, GCIH, CISM, CISSP, CEH, etc.
  
  

Security Operations Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 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 August 29, 2024.

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