Penetration Tester II

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.

Microsoft Fabric’s Penetration Testing team is a high-impact, hands-on security group embedded at the heart of one of Microsoft’s most ambitious data platforms. We lead internal adversarial engagements across the Fabric ecosystem, combining manual expertise, cutting-edge automation, and AI-driven techniques to rigorously challenge and validate the platform’s security posture. As a Penetration Tester on this team, you’ll collaborate with engineers, architects, and threat analysts to simulate real-world attack scenarios, uncover vulnerabilities, and drive meaningful improvements across a rapidly evolving cloud-native environment.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Utilize an adversarial mindset to perform penetration tests of SaaS, desktop, and mobile software and systems.
• Proficient in discovering vulnerabilities view manual testing, code review, and automation.
• Able to script exploits and tests for automation.
• Continually learning current security vulns, exploits, and concerns and able to bring that knowledge to the team.
• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in security or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ year experience with penetration testing
  

Other Requirements

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.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in security or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience penetration testing Azure-based services
• Experience penetration testing LLM integrations
  

Penetration Testing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,000 - CAD $166,800 per year.

Find Additional Pay Information Here

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 14, 2025.

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