[Hiring] Cyber Security Analyst @Microsoft

Role Description

The 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.

As a Cyber Security Analyst within the CDI Investigations team, you play a critical role in safeguarding organizational assets and data. This role is focused on proactively detecting, investigating, and responding to sophisticated security threats using advanced security tooling, automation, and threat intelligence. You will be responsible for:

• Analyzing alerts
• Conducting detailed investigations
• Correlating signals across multiple systems
• Driving incident response actions including containment and remediation

The role requires strong analytical thinking, curiosity, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. In addition to investigation work, you will contribute to:

• Improving detection logic
• Enhancing investigation workflows
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive security improvements at scale

This role offers the opportunity to influence broader security strategies while continuously building deep technical expertise.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
• OR equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here .