MS Sentinal Engineer/SME

Remote • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 12 hours ago
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No Travel Required
Remote
Depends on Experience
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Job Details

Skills

  • SOC
  • Incident Response
  • Azure Cloud Security
  • threat hunting
  • Azure SIEM
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Cloud Security
  • Entra ID
  • Microsoft Defender Suite
  • EDR/XDR
  • Sentinel playbooks

Summary

Title: MS Sentinal Engineer/SME
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire - no sponsorship available
Required Skills:
5+ years of experience in:
  • Security Operations Center (SOC) environments
  • Incident Response
  • Azure Cloud Securit
Education & Experience
  • Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field
    OR equivalent combination of relevant education and hands-on experience
  • 5+ years of experience in:
    • Security Operations Center (SOC) environments
    • Incident Response
    • Azure Cloud Security
SOC & Incident Response Expertise
  • Senior-level SOC experience (L3 / Senior / Principal) acting as an escalation point for high-severity and complex incidents
  • Proven leadership in incident response, including root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident improvements
  • Hands-on threat hunting experience with continuous improvement mindset
Microsoft Sentinel & SIEM
  • Expert-level Microsoft Sentinel (Azure SIEM) experience, including:
    • Log ingestion and integration
    • Data lifecycle management
    • Incident investigation and response
  • Strong experience with:
    • Log normalization, parsing, and data quality management
    • SIEM performance tuning (noise reduction + detection accuracy)
  • Advanced KQL skills for:
    • Detection development
    • Threat hunting
    • Large-scale data analysis
Detection Engineering & Automation
  • Deep experience in detection engineering, aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Hands-on automation and orchestration using:
    • Sentinel playbooks
    • Logic Apps or similar SOAR tooling
Security Tooling & Cloud Security
  • Strong working knowledge of enterprise and cloud security tools, including:
    • Next-Gen Firewalls
    • IDS/IPS
    • EDR/XDR
    • Antivirus
    • Microsoft Defender Suite
    • Internet proxies and cloud security tools
  • Solid understanding of:
    • Azure security controls
    • Identity security (Entra ID)
    • Cloud-native and enterprise security architectures
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  • Dice Id: RTX1cd78a
  • Position Id: 8958599
  • Posted 12 hours ago
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