Security Operations Engineer - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom - Microsoft

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Microsoft

We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today.

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.

In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Identity security analyst team, IDFIRE, is the premier identity cyber threat hunting and investigation team in the industry.

We partner with data scientists and engineers to ensure the integrity and security ofthe services we operate (Entra & Microsoft Account), as well as the consumer and commercial identities we manage.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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.

#Respond to security incidents (on-call) everything from unexploited vulnerabilities to attacks against Microsoft and attacks against our customers. Conduct Post Incident Reviews and determine root cause of security incidents. Coordinate with engineering to build requirements and user stories.
Identify and analyze new data sources to find novel patterns that can be passed to engineering and transformed into new automated detections and protections
Develop and enhance data analytics pipelines for cybersecurity and/or fraud investigations
Collaborate with engineering and partner teams (MSTIC, MSRC, M365, XBox, Azure and others) in achieving our objectives
Experience in cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, or data science
Azure or other cloud infrastructure, identity access management, software development lifecycle
Experience with Project planning and building out cyber security incident response plan, threat analytics and reports, anomaly and Security Operations Center (SOC) detection and automation
BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent experience
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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.

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