Security Operations Engineer
Overview
Microsoft runs on trust. As our lives and businesses are becoming increasingly digitized, trust is the glue that holds us together. Our work helps Microsoft grow its trustworthy 3rd party ecosystem, while proactively protecting individuals and organizations across the planet. Corruption, theft, cybersecurity, and human rights are complex threats, often intertwined.
Our Central Fraud & Abuse Risk team is hiring a Security Operations Engineer. In this role you will deliver innovation to every corner of the company, doing work that really matters. We build, buy, and integrate the best available components and datasets to deliver a flexible, scalable platform that amplifies both automated and human decision-making.
As a Security Operations Engineer you will leverage data in these systems to understand threats, incidents, and risks and apply the intelligence to contain real time issues, make changes to security approaches, rules, and algorithms in the live systems, and implement features to improve or create system solutions.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ 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
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
- 3+ years experience in deep data analytics including for fraud detection and prevention.
- 2+ years of security or compliance analytics or security operations.
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/Additional Qualifications:
- Experience with heuristic and machine learning analytical models and risk management methodology.
- Demonstrated understanding of data management processes and practices, and data quality control.
- Knowledge of Microsoft commercial business programs and operations.
- Knowledge of Microsoft compliance and security practices and processes.
- Ability to write and read fluently in a second language is preferred, including Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian.
- CFE, CompTIA Security+, or CISSP certification.
- Holds an Azure Fundamentals Certification.
Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 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 February 23, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Drive down fraud and compliance issues in critical customer and partner facing programs.
- Analyze Security, Compliance, and Fraud Data from Live Systems.
- Recommend remediation actions and investigative referrals.
- Deliver fraud analysis and decisions on real time cases.
- Revise live site security rules and settings to prevent additional issues.
- Analyze ongoing performance of the rules and objectives.
- Propose service changes and new features to ensure continuing excellence.
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