Security Analyst II - 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 everyuser, 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 cloudsin 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 mission of Microsoft Digital Security & Resilience (DSR) is to enable Microsoft to build the most trusted devices and services, while keeping our company safe and our data protected.
As part of the Microsoft Security organization, and a steward of Microsoft and our customer s data, a core function of Microsoft DSR is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business.
Microsoft DSR is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity.
As customer zero, we deploy and secure these services inside Microsoft and then share best practices with enterprise customers at scale across the globe.
We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is looking for a Security Analyst II for our US Government Cloud.
As a Security Analyst II, you will work closely with other cloud and security experts across Microsoft to investigate threats, proactively hunt for compromise, improve and automate processes, develop security tooling and data automation, and contribute your experience and expertise to countless other projects that enhance the security and scalability of our cloud services.
You will be a part of defending our customer base focused on identifying new attacks, coordinating large scale response and investigating issues.

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 Security Operations Center (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 (Department of Defense) and civilian agencies.

The Security Analyst II will be excited about strengthening our cloud defenses and defending customers from emerging security threats.
If you are excited about protecting customers, then this opportunity may be for you.
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.

• 3+ 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.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

• 3+ years of experience with big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel
  • OR 3+ years of experience working with large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like:
    SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI.
• Knowledge of common security, encryption, and protocols such as encryption, PKI, modern authentication and cloud app authorization architectures and protocols such as SA.