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Senior Network Security Engineer

Microsoft· Security Operations Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Network Security Engineer to design, deploy, and operate network security monitoring capabilities supporting sovereign and government cloud environments, focusing on telemetry, threat detection, alerting, automation, and on-call operational ownership.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field with 3+ years in relevant areas OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years in relevant areas OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Cloud/network security engineeringTelemetry and loggingThreat detection and incident responseAutomation and IaCOn-call and incident ownershipPacket capture and log analysisSecurity platforms integration
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