Senior Network Security Engineer

Senior Network Security Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200055739

Date posted

Sep 23, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Security Engineering

Discipline

Security Operations Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Security Engineer to design, deploy, and operate network security monitoring capabilities supporting sovereign and government cloud environments. This role focuses on network security telemetry, threat detection, alerting, automation, and operational ownership of critical security services.

The Engineer will be responsible for deploying and configuring network security platforms, building telemetry pipelines, developing detections and alerts, and enabling visibility into network activity across cloud and hybrid environments. The role requires strong network security expertise, experience analyzing packet captures and network telemetry, and the ability to leverage automation and AI to improve monitoring, incident response, and operational efficiency.

As the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for assigned services, this engineer will provide operational ownership, incident leadership, and participation in on-call rotations to ensure service reliability, security visibility, and compliance readiness across Microsoft sovereign cloud offerings.

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

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage network security platforms including firewalls, proxies, and traffic inspection solutions supporting sovereign cloud environments.

• Configure network security devices to export logs, flow records, packet telemetry, and security events to centralized monitoring, analytics, and incident response platforms.

• Develop and maintain network security detections, alerts, and analytics to identify malicious activity, unauthorized access, policy violations, and emerging threats.

• Analyze packet captures, firewall logs, flow data, and network telemetry to support threat investigations, incident response, root cause analysis, and service improvements.

• Build and maintain security telemetry pipelines that provide actionable visibility across network infrastructure, cloud services, and security platforms.

• Develop automation solutions using scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve detection engineering, alert covariance, incident triage, and operational efficiency.

• Integrate network security telemetry, observability, and incident management platforms to improve monitoring coverage and response effectiveness.

• Create operational dashboards, reporting, and health metrics to measure detection coverage, alert quality, service reliability, compliance posture, and operational risk.

• Partner with engineering, security, and operations teams to define secure network architectures, monitoring standards, deployment patterns, and onboarding requirements for new services.

• Other

• Embody our company Culture & Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathemati