Security Analyst II

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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.

We are hiring a Security Analyst II for the Cloud Security Organization. Are you passionate about Cybersecurity and protecting Microsoft’s Cloud? Do you have analytical mindset and good understanding of security landscape? Are you excited about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft faces today? If the answer is yes, you may be a candidate to join the Security, Health and Analytics team inside the Cloud Security organization. Our team designs, builds and operates security tools used to protect the cloud, its infrastructure, and customer’s workloads. We provide security monitoring platform and analytics, scan automation, threat detection and risk reduction for the Azure platform across wide range of physical and virtual platforms. Our group is looking for an experienced security professional to be a Security Analyst driving a portfolio of protection, detection and response capabilities focused on an important set of services in the Azure platform. Your work will play a key role in enhancing the security posture of some of the largest cloud services on the planet and help protect Microsoft’s customers from cybercrime. We are looking for someone who is passionate about and highly skilled in using big data and advanced analytics to drive actionable insights across complex business and product engineering questions as well as to identify and resolve critical problems for our customers. We work on petabytes of data, leveraging advanced data engineering and analytics to deliver business critical insights and recommendations for engineering leadership and service teams delivering Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. 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.

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.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 2+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience.

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.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in a vulnerability management or security data analyst role
• 2+ years of experience with vulnerability scanning and management solutions
• 2+ years of experience with SQL or Kusto
• Understanding of data models and data visualization
• Deep technical background in Windows and/or Linux systems, cloud security, and Azure
• Outstanding analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Business intelligence and data analytic skills including scorecard and metric/KPI management
  
• CISSP certification preferred
• Hands-on experience with industry vulnerability scanning solutions for remote endpoints, virtual machines, and web applications

Data Analytics IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $112,000 - $185,300 per year.

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 September 26, 2025.

• Provide actionable intelligence and analytics that will make Azure cloud products and services safer
• Being a thought leader in the security space to incubate, implement and refine ideas that will elevate our security posture
• Translate trend analysis, variance analysis, findings, and insights to stakeholders to drive actions for a variety of vulnerability management and security monitoring scenarios
• Communicate plans to executives and key stakeholders
• Partner with service owners and key stakeholders to analyze the data and develop remediation plans
• Drive feedback programs with customers.
• Embody our culture and values