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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. 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.
Job Responsibility:
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.
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. 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.
Nice to have:
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.