Security Operations Engineer
Microsoft
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Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability and telemetry.
- Automate security protections such as asset security patching.
- Read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting and self-healing capabilities for platforms.
- Own, triage, investigate and resolve service issues with an emphasis on broad communications, learning & teaching throughout the process.
- Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deeply technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.
- Remain current on new technologies, methods and procedures including, but not limited to, coding practices such as Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing) in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
- OR 1+ year(s) 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
- CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification
- Experience in Programming (Python, .Net or C# or equivalent).
- Experience with writing tools, automation, and enhancements in arbitrary subcomponents of services/products to deliver and manage software in production (both around services, and within them).
- Experience with PowerShell/Scripting, Windows Services infrastructure to automate day to day activities.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 3, 2024.
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