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Security Operations Engineer 2
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. 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. The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Protect team manages Entra tenants for all Microsoft Cloud. We are looking for a Security Operations Engineer II who will join our mission of protecting Microsoft Cloud by building and operating security services that will enforce security policies across thousands of services. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft and leverage your insights to protect Microsoft services and customers. Your primary focus will be to design, develop, and maintain scalable user lifecycle management systems & expanding our managed environments to meet business requirements. 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. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop a deep understanding of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution for Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure services.Use data to define and assert production service isolation across identitiesWork with our penetration testing, incident response teams, and business leaders to ensure that learnings from security incidents are prioritized and remediated.Collaborate closely with M365, Azure, and other security teams across Microsoft, as well as service teams to roll out the latest security policies with the right level of automation and enforcement.Define key success metrics and craft data-focused tracking of solution health and adoption.Report on project status in various reviews, partner briefings, & security conferences.Embody our culture and values | |