Senior Security Operations Engineer

** 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 remains a critical priority for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. 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.

As a  
** Senior Security Operations Engineer** , you will play a pivotal role improving security within Microsoft. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the safety and integrity of some of the world's most critical assets. Your focus will be on establishing the strategy and implementation of key initiatives related to endpoint security.

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.

** Responsibilities*
* -    Develop and implement solutions for secure operation of business critical productivity scenarios inclusive of device permissions and client-side applications.

-    Understand and investigate emerging endpoint related security risks  and recommend prioritization for defense-building capabilities.

-    Leverage technical knowledge of Entra, Intune, Defender for Endpoint, and Defender for Cloud to enhance security measures and protocols.

-    Identify and raise opportunities for automation and AI-native solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

-    Embody our culture and values.

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + 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:*
* 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…