Full-Time

Senior Incident Response Engineer-CIRT

Posted on 9/18/2025

Microsoft

Microsoft

10,001+ employees

Develops software, OS, and cloud services

Compensation Overview

$106.4k - $203.6k/yr

No H1B Sponsorship

United States

In Person

The position supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government agency customers.

US Citizenship Required

Category
IT & Security (1)
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  • OR 7+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  • Minimum 3+ years Security Incident Response experience with recent operational security experience (SOC, Malware Analysis, IDS/IPS Analysis, threat analytics, windows server, and endpoint security, etc.)
  • Minimum 2+ years of experience in Network Security Administration, and/or Systems Administration with experience in Windows Server, Windows Client, and Active Directory Administration
  • Minimum 3+ years customer facing experience
  • Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • 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.
Responsibilities
  • Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues.
  • Reviews highly complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., debugging) to help resolve customer issues. Supports the business both locally and globally to drive business. Serves as a technical escalation point.
  • Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.
  • Resolves highly complex cases and by working on the end-to-end on case resolution. Serves as an escalation point for other engineers to assist in resolving cases. May have to work with product group or engineering team.
  • Assists in the development of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) for new and existing technology.
  • Leads case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop customer solutions. Takes learnings from triage meetings to communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.
  • Reviews diagnostic processes and collaborates to design complete systems that simplify tools automation and eliminate systematic diagnostic issues. Builds automation tools.
  • Contributes to product improvements by filing bugs and design change requests, and recommends potential fixes to validate resolution prior to shipping to customer or production in order to prevent customers from being impacted.
  • Acts as a trusted advisor to the product group, in a designated discipline or technology, to influence, improve, or propose fixes.
  • Makes improvements based on feedback provided. Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.
  • Uses business integration knowledge to influence strategy when engaging with customers, partners, and teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • Cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments
  • Automation (PowerShell and/or Python, or a similar language, can be a beginner to intermediate level)
  • Experience in Azure Identity management and troubleshooting
  • Preferred Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field, or relevant work experience
  • Preferred IT Industry certifications (Microsoft Certifications On-Prem or Cloud, SANS GCIH, CISSP, CEH, Amazon AWS, etc.)

Microsoft develops software, devices, and cloud services. Windows is an operating system that runs on personal computers, Office provides productivity apps, and Azure offers cloud computing and developer tools. The company differentiates itself with a large, integrated ecosystem of software, devices, and services, plus long-standing partnerships with PC makers and a broad enterprise footprint. Its goal is to put a computer on every desk and in every home, and to extend that reach through cloud services, professional networking (LinkedIn), and gaming.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington

Founded

1975

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Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Professional Development Budget

Conference Attendance Budget

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

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6 month growth

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