Senior Network Security Engineer

Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) is hiring a Senior Cloud Network Security Engineer to design, deploy, and operate network security monitoring for sovereign and government cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage network security platforms such as firewalls, proxies, and traffic inspection solutions for 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 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 improvement.
• 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 expand monitoring coverage and improve 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), or 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), or 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
• Minimum experience: 3 years

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

Required Technologies

• Python
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Bicep
• ARM

Location

• Redmond, WA (onsite)

Compensation

• USD 119,800 - 261,000 per yearly

Other

• Embodies Microsoft Culture & Values