Senior Security Engineer - Security Incident Response - CTJ - Se Security Clearance

Position: Senior Security Engineer - Security Incident Response - CTJ - Se with Security Clearance
Overview The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Security represents a critical priority for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a secure cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. 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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Aligning with Microsoft's mission and the focus of the Microsoft Security organization, this role is an integral part of a larger team dedicated to delivering world-class security operations that contain and evict threat actor activities.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities Our Senior Security Engineer - Security Incident Response Engineer will
* Coordinate with investigators to prioritize investigation objectives, understands attack paths, and systematically executes mitigation and protection actions to evict threat actors for any security incident impacting any of Microsoft's products or services
* Conduct hands-on mitigation where possible; engages service owners when there is a risk of a production outage
* Maintain hands-on knowledge of mitigation and protection steps for various asset types (e.g. M365, Azure, AI) and publishes self-service guidance for impacted engineering teams
* Brief executive stakeholders on eviction plans and associated status
* Maintain and evolves an inventory of threat actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the corresponding eviction capabilities
* Define and prioritize requirements and use cases for Microsoft's threat actor eviction platform; operationalize as they are delivered
* Drive strategic change to accelerate eviction scenarios (e.g. lean business cases to garner support for broader Microsoft product initiatives or features).
* Participate in an on-call rotation Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications
* Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, 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 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, 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. Other Requirements Security Clearance Requirements :
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening…