Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · DevOps
In short
Microsoft's Detection and Response Team (DART) is hiring a Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer in the United States to help customers with security incidents. This role involves leading infrastructure recovery and identity containment, setting technical priorities, and acting as a trusted partner during urgent response activities, with a focus on enterprise on-premises and cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support evidence-driven infrastructure response, identity recovery, and technical hardening workstreams.
- Set infrastructure recovery objectives, technical priorities, and evidence requirements for identity, directory, privileged access, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Lead or support containment and recovery for compromised Active Directory, Entra ID, Tier 0, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Assess compromise scope, recovery readiness, trust relationships, privileged access pathways, and security-control gaps.
- Direct or guide technical response activities balancing containment, recovery urgency, evidence preservation, and customer business constraints.
- Collect, preserve, and analyze infrastructure and identity evidence.
- Serve as a technical point of contact for infrastructure recovery, briefing customer technical teams, executives, and internal stakeholders.
- Identify skill, access, telemetry, and resource gaps and work to resolve dependencies.
- Maintain technical documentation and clear handovers.
- Contribute to proactive services like compromise assessments and identity posture reviews.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Required to work shift assignments during non-standard business hours, Friday through Monday: 10-hour shift scheduled between 8:00 AM - 6 PM EDT, Weekends and Public Holidays.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Active Directory, Entra ID or other enterprise identity platforms in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of identity-related attack techniques, including Golden Ticket, Pass-the-Hash, Kerberoasting, credential theft, privilege escalation and lateral movement.
- Experience supporting identity recovery, infrastructure recovery and post-breach hardening decisions under operational pressure.
- Familiarity with Windows Server infrastructure, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, privileged access and hybrid identity dependencies.
- Ability to script or automate recovery, validation or analysis tasks using PowerShell or similar tools.
- Demonstrated ability to explain technical findings, dependencies, risk and residual uncertainty clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Flexibility to work non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends and/or holidays.
- Experience in cybersecurity incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting or enterprise recovery.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Azure, Windows security eventing and third-party SIEM/SOAR or EDR platforms.
- Experience leading infrastructure workstreams in high-pressure, customer-facing incident response.
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical constraints into practical response plans and executive-ready recommendations.
- Relevant security, identity, cloud or incident response certifications, or equivalent practical expertise.
- Demonstrated research, analytical automation, data-quality improvement or technical mentoring.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Skills
PowerShellActive DirectoryEntra IDMicrosoft Defender XDRMicrosoft SentinelMicrosoft GraphAzure
#cybersecurity#incident response#infrastructure recovery#identity management#cloud security#threat analysis#vulnerability research#anomaly detection
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
3 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Remote
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Doctoral, Master, Bachelor
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