New 
Security Analyst II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 20, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. We are looking for a Security Analyst II to help us grow our team of security professionals to protect our customers against all threats by delivering & managing effective investigations.Do you have a passion for data and security, comfortable with ambiguity and acceptance of the need to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure, combined with a proven ability to sift through data datasets to extract valuable insights. If so, then this might be the role for you. This team will leverage the billions of signals surfaced across our services in Azure, M365, Azure Active Directory (AAD), and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), conducting cutting edge threat research, state of the art ML/AI and human expertise to fully analyze and investigate potential abuse, adversary activity and a multitude of other potential malicious and nefarious activity on our platform. 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'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.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.
ResponsibilitiesAs a Security Analyst II, you will:Respond to and investigate sophisticated threats with information from a wide variety of sources, and ensure similar scenarios are prevented in the future.Perform forensic investigation on suspected compromised assets and analyze log data to determine what occurred.Collaborate with the team to create adversary eviction and incident remediation plans.Analyze and improve situational awareness, monitoring coverage, and incident response capabilities.Investigate, analyze and eradicate threats proactively.Design, develop, and deliver tooling to assist the investigative process and create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow. | |