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Cyber Security Analyst II - CTJ - Secret
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 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. Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations is looking for a Cyber Security Analyst II for our US Government Cloud. As a Cyber Security Analyst II, you will have the opportunity through advanced security technologies and extensive automation to detect security threats, conduct comprehensive investigations, and drive issues to remediation and closure. In addition, you will collaborate with teams across the company on technology and processes to improve automation, detection, response, drive security efforts, and identify innovative solutions at the highest levels for cyber defense that will protect the company as well as our global customers. The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations team seeks motivated, experienced security professionals to join our team. There are few places in Microsoft that have as much direct impact on as many customers as Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations team, it is the front line that defends our customers that use Microsoft's Cloud platform and online services. The government security team further specializes in defending the Microsoft platforms that support and enable our U.S. Government partners. 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. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDetect and respond to advanced threats, actor techniques, anomalous or suspicious activity, combined with intelligence, to identify potential and active risks to systems and data.Conduct detailed comprehensive analysis, investigation, and triage on a wide variety of security events and implement containment, mitigation, and response processes.Drive prioritization of significant security events across the operations center and incident response teams.Develop and maintain operational playbooks that guide security operation's day to day activities. Collaborate with internal and external security partners to identify indications and warnings of impending threats.Use security business intelligence to drive prioritization and improvements within Microsoft security programs.Participate in shifts, on call rotations, and after-hours responsibilities and escalations in a 24x7 environmentOther Embody our culture and values | |