Senior Security Investigator - CTJ - Poly

Security represents the most critical priorities 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 security 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, 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.

Do you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with to protect petabytes of business-critical customer data? We are looking for a Senior Security Investigator with the right mix of technical depth, engineering background, on-line services experience, and collaboration skills to help grow and protect Microsoft 365 cloud services.

Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients.

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.

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

As a Senior Security Investigator you will work closely with other cloud and security experts across Microsoft to investigate threats, proactively hunt for compromise, automate capabilities, develop security tooling and data automation, and contribute your experience and expertise to countless other projects. We work in DevOps model within the Security business and need someone who has a passion for automating their way our of having to do the same thing twice and always thinking about how to scale what we do to millions and millions of users, hosts, and operations. You will be working to solve issues related to the latest security trends and early warning indicators, as well as help design solutions for emerging threats. M365 Security is a fast-paced team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow.

Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 5+ years 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.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience querying/analyzing big data using SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel.

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 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 o