Microsoft
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Senior Network Security Engineer

Pay
$119,800 – $234,700 per year
Location
Redmond, WA
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
4+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Microsoft Cloud background check
  • U.S. citizenship verification
  • firewalls
  • IDS/IPS platforms
  • SIEM
  • network telemetry analysis

Also useful

  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Bicep
  • AI-driven security operations

About the role

Design, deploy, and manage network security platforms including firewalls, proxies, and traffic inspection solutions supporting 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 provide 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.

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.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local [or applicable country] 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 via a valid passport. 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.

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From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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