Are you looking for a challenge that puts you at the center of the Microsoft Edge + Platform, Devices and Gaming Security strategy? Are you passionate about solving the security challenges of critical online services?  Microsoft’s EDG Security (Edge + Platform, Devices and Gaming) takes care of some of Microsoft’s largest and most important online services including the Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Game Studios, and more. EDG Security High Value Assets (HVA) team looks after securing network, identity & isolation and manageability of high value infrastructure assets for Microsoft product groups such as Azure Edge, Operating Systems, Devices and Gaming. HVA team needs an experienced full stack Security Operations Engineer to build tools and services for the EDG Security teams and its partners. We’re looking for great developers producing excellent software.

Our Ideal Candidate is:

• Self-motivated, experienced in solving complex problems
• Has a history of designing and developing production ready software.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Strong team player
• Has passion to work on both software and Infrastructure solutions

Responsibilities

• Design/Enhance and deploy an organization’s Cloud infrastructure and bring in automation
• Implement security and compliance from code as well as infrastructure perspective.
• Support a range of Infrastructure Services encompassing Azure and other Cloud Subscriptions, catering to project requirements
• Work on various phases of on-premise service migrations to Azure Cloud
• Will also be involved in software development lifecycle activities
• Write secure, reliable, scalable, reusable and maintainable code, and then effectively debug it, test it and support it from live to production
• Involved in providing on call support for the existing systems, on need basis
• Engineering analytical solutions for proactively reporting security and operational KPIs
• Azure services such as Azure DevOps will need to be used for CI/CD.
• To update the status of the deliverables assigned and maintaining centralized code and documentation
• Will work on periodically bringing in both process and code automations
• Cross collaborate with teams to bring in reusability and design wholistic solutions

Qualifications

• Atlest 5  years’ experience in engineering Infrastructure/Data solutions on-premise/cloud including experience with Azure resources such as Logic Apps, Key vault, Storage Accounts, Log Analytics, Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience on Azure Security Center, setting Group Policies, Azure Automations and Update Management, Azure Arc and Networking services
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on cloud and hardware deployment using Microsoft native or 3rd party tools.
• Have experience in ITSM (Service and Incident Management)
• Deep understanding of Cloud concepts (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
• Experience implementing CI CD using Azure DevOps
• Hands-on experience on Relational Databases
• Experience with Agile project management methodologies 
• Experience in designing and developing Data analytics solutions using spark/Databricks, PowerShell, KQL, Synapse, Cosmos DB ..etc.
• Experienced doing unit-testing, continuous integration and test-driven development
• Ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and adopt solution from within the company or from the Open-Source community 
• Experience in technically leading the team to solve complex engineering problems

• Bachelors in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• Having strong understanding of security concepts as well as robust problem-solving skills ranging from conceptualization to implementation is a plus.
• Technical expertise in C#, C++, or Java is a plus

• Experience in building dashboards and using machine learning algorithms for proactive reporting of metrics.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.