Overview

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry are 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. The Microsoft Insider Risk Program is dedicated to protecting our people, data, and intellectual property by proactively detecting, investigating, and mitigating risks originating from within the organization. Built on a foundation of innovation and collaboration, the program leverages advanced analytics, detections, and cross-team coordination to ensure Microsoft remains resilient against insider threats in a dynamic threat landscape.

As an Insider Risk Analyst – Cyber, you will play a critical role in identifying, validating, and responding to potential insider threats within Microsoft’s digital environment. You’ll analyze complex datasets, assess security alerts, and support investigations that involve data loss, misuse of privileged access, or anomalous user behavior. Working closely with engineers, analysts, and product teams, you will contribute to improving detection quality, refining playbooks, and advancing Microsoft’s insider risk detection capabilities. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, technically curious, and disciplined in execution. You’ll gain hands-on experience across detection development, incident response, and operational analysis—building the foundation for a career at the intersection of cybersecurity, data protection, and insider threat defense.

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.

Responsibilities

Detection & Response

• Respond to detections and escalations related to Insider Threat.
• Provide investigation support, including containment and remediation during insider threat incidents.

Investigation & Analysis

• Identify, collect, and analyze essential data from a variety of sources to validate suspicious behaviors.
• Ensure metrics are complete and accurate, and findings are documented in the case management system.

Collaboration & Coordination

• Coordinate investigation and mitigation steps with other internal teams across Microsoft globally.
• Work closely with engineering and first-party product teams to author new detections or tune existing ones to improve alert quality

Process & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain playbooks to improve processes, consistency, and information sharing across teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security or 2+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, threat detection and analysis, and/or incident response
• 1+ year(s) experience working with Sentinel, Defender or other equivalent tools
• 1+ year(s) experience using Azure cloud environments, with an understanding of data flows, access management
• 1+ year(s) experience working in a structured, process-driven environment with attention to detail and consistency.
• 1+ year(s) experience using programming languages (Python, Powershell) and query languages (SQL, KQL)

Security Operations Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.