Microsoft•5h ago
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Security Operations Engineer
United States
Full Time
Entry Level
$102K-$202K/yr
Full Job Description
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Security Operations Engineer - Cloud Security for our Cloud Operations & Innovation organization. This role focuses on operating and enhancing cloud security controls, investigating incidents, and advancing automation practices including Infrastructure-as-Code.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and mitigate issues in security controls while surfacing opportunities for network efficiency through automation.
- Install, upgrade, and maintain critical security hardware, operating systems, and software.
- Identify gaps in security policies, recommend solutions, and implement revised standards with partner teams to drive consistency.
- Maintain customer experience standards by analyzing metrics (bugs, data pipelines) and advocating for improvements through appropriate escalation channels.
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting critical security services.
- Analyze compromise attempts with minimal guidance to create exposure-limiting recommendations and response plans alongside partner teams.
- Create detections based on monitoring activities using Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP).
- Design, deploy, and operate cloud security controls such as WAF, NSG, Azure Firewall, Defender for Cloud, PIM, Key Vault, and network isolation patterns.
- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code automation using Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, and Azure Policy to enforce baselines at fleet scale.
- Investigate cloud-security incidents, lead postmortems, and convert findings into durable engineering improvements.
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a global leader in technology, providing computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems to customers worldwide.
United States
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