Security Detection Engineer - 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.

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is looking for a Security Detection Engineer for our US Government Cloud. As a Security Detection Engineer, you will work as part of a team that streamlines security data collection and alerting to deliver actionable insights for our security team. We are looking for candidates to work on solutions that protect Microsoft services against cyberattacks and insider 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.

MSRC seeks motivated, experienced security professionals to join our team. There are few places in Microsoft that have as much direct impact on as many customers as the Microsoft Security Response Center’s SOC and Incident Response Teams. The SOC within the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is the front line that defends our customers that use Microsoft's Cloud platform and online services. The government security team further specializes to defend national security objectives supporting the DoD and civilian agencies.

The successful candidate will have passion for cybersecurity, data analytics, and data science and possesses demonstrated collaboration project management stills. We are a fast-paced team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow.

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

• Applying knowledge of attacker techniques to uncover threats by analyzing log data, building, and tuning detections.
• Drawing together signals from multiple sources and platforms to infer and detect attacker techniques.
• Utilizing software engineering fundamentals to ensure consistent and repeatable delivery of high quality, high true positive detections.
• Coding and scripting in C#, PowerShell, Python, and various low-code or no-code platforms.
• Executing the dev-sec-ops approach to software delivery by designing, coding, testing, deploying, and operating components of the Microsoft Cloud's security monitoring systems.

Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ year 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.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathema