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Do you love the excitement and learning opportunity to study, analyze, and deal with the most complex threats to digital security in today's world? Do you have the “learner” mindset, are willing to un-learn previous skills and learn new ones every day? Are you passionate about solving the challenges of security response teams? If yes, then this opportunity is for you.

The Telemetry Enforcement Engineering team, within Cyber Defense Operations is looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer to drive the centralization of access and curation of critical security data while applying operational rigor to ensure real-time availability and accuracy of thousands of mission-critical data sources. About CDO - Cyber Defense Operations. An organization led by Microsoft’s Chief Information Security Officer enables Microsoft to deliver the most trusted software and services. The CDO vision is to ensure all information and services are protected, secured, and available for appropriate use through innovation and a robust risk & management framework.

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• Data-Driven Analysis - Analyzes key metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) and other data sources (e.g., bugs, unhealthy data pipeline) and identifies trends in security issues and escalates appropriately. Recommends improvements and/or metrics to address gaps in measurement. Leverages multiple sources of data in conducting and interpreting analysis. Evaluates data sets for anomalies and other patterns.
• Technical Insight: Provides technical insight on incident analysis and management, threat mitigation and an ability to translate into platform requirements, partnering closely with software development teams.
• Operational Rigor: Demonstrates exceptional operational rigor with real-world experience in cyber security operations, threat mitigation and incident response.
• Stakeholder Management: Manages critical stakeholder calls and meetings (including non-business hours) while addressing critical security incidents.
• Security Knowledge: Possesses extensive hands-on knowledge of security concepts including cyber-attacks, techniques, threat vectors, risk management, and incident management.
• Data Engineering & Management: Understand and administer data source access, availability, while proactively defining controls & policies to improve access and availability.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Required 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.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Kusto clusters (KQL), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Access Control methods.
• 3+ years assisting in tuning and optimizing data source and data pipeline availability rules and alerts.
• 3+ years developing and maintaining incident response playbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• 3+ years collaborating with IT, DevOps, and other teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve security controls/policies.

Other Requirements:

Ability 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:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or Doctorate Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 10+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• 8+ years of security operations work experience, with 5 years of experience collaborating with IR/SOC.
• Proficient conducting root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 2nd, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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