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Senior Network Security Engineer

Microsoft Redmond, WA

Redmond, WA

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$120k - $261k/yr Full time Senior Ansible Application Security

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Job Description

Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) is hiring a Senior Cloud Network Security Engineer in Redmond, WA (onsite). The role designs, deploys, and operates network security monitoring for sovereign and government cloud environments, with ownership across telemetry, threat detection, alerting, automation, and day-to-day security operations.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage network security platforms including firewalls, proxies, and traffic inspection solutions that support sovereign cloud environments.
Configure network security devices to export logs, flow records, packet telemetry, and security events to centralized monitoring, analytics, and incident response platforms.
Develop and maintain network security detections, alerts, and analytics to identify malicious activity, unauthorized access, policy violations, and emerging threats.
Analyze packet captures, firewall logs, flow data, and network telemetry to support threat investigations, incident response, root cause analysis, and service improvements.
Build and maintain security telemetry pipelines that deliver actionable visibility across network infrastructure, cloud services, and security platforms.
Develop automation solutions using scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve detection engineering, alert correlation, incident triage, and operational efficiency.
Integrate network security telemetry, observability, and incident management platforms to improve monitoring coverage and response effectiveness.
Create operational dashboards, reporting, and health metrics to measure detection coverage, alert quality, service reliability, compliance posture, and operational risk.
Partner with engineering, security, and operations teams to define secure network architectures, monitoring standards, deployment patterns, and onboarding requirements for new services.

Requirements

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years 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.
OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years 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.
OR equivalent experience.
Microsoft Cloud background check required to pass upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Verification of U.S. citizenship via a valid passport due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.

Preferred Qualifications

2+ years of experience using AI technologies to improve security operations, detection engineering, alert correlation, incident investigation, and operational workflows.
2+ years of experience supporting government, regulated, or sovereign cloud environments.
10+ years of experience designing, deploying, or operating network security infrastructure and services.
5+ years of experience with firewalls, DDoS protection, IDS/IPS platforms, proxies, traffic inspection, and network security controls.
5+ years of experience automating operational processes using Python, Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, ARM, or similar technologies.
3+ years of experience configuring security devices to export telemetry, logs, events, and flow data for centralized monitoring and threat analysis.
3+ years of experience developing security detections, alerting strategies, monitoring content, and operational response processes.
5+ years of experience supporting production services, incident response, operational ownership, and on-call rotations.

Technologies

Python
Terraform
Ansible
Bicep
ARM

Additional Information

Embodiment of Microsoft Culture & Values.

Compensation and Location

Location: Redmond, WA (onsite). Salary: USD 119,800 - 261,000 per year.

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