Senior Security Operations Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
The Production Tenant Management team is dedicated to securing the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services including platforms like Office, Exchange, Entra, Defender, and Azure. Our team specializes in Entra tenant management with an emphasis on identity, authentication, Entra applications, and governance.
We are looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer to help scale tenant management across hundreds of Entra tenants and reduce security risk to Microsoft as a whole. In this role, your primary focus will be to work with product groups, global admins, and application governance dev team to design, operate, and govern an Entra application management platform. Additionally, you'll have opportunities to work on a wide breadth of tenant management challenges spanning identity and access management to incident response.
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.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Application or user lifecycle management.
• Extensive hands-on experience in security operations, preferably with a focus on identity and access management.
• Deep understanding of Entra tenant management, authentication, authorization, and governance best practices.
• Data driven approach to problem solving (must be able to perform basic queries).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and respond to complex security incidents in a timely manner.
• Ability to balance security principles with business needs.
• Security certifications (e.g. CISSP, GIAC, etc.).
• Experience with managing security incidents.

Responsibilities

• Govern Entra the end-to-end Entra application lifecycle for Entra tenants. This includes defining the specifications and features required for an application governance platform to succeed at scale.
• Defining Entra application policies and executing policy enforcement and risk reduction.
• Automation to scale to manage hundreds of tenants across multiple Azure clouds.
• General Entra tenant governance which includes things like Conditional Access Policies, Azure Policies, Custom Roles, etc. in addition to the core focus area of Entra applications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level