Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence is recruiting advanced threat hunters – with highly honed threat intelligence analysis skills. We are looking for a candidate that can work closely with enterprise security teams to identify and investigate nation-state threats and provide techniques to detect and track adversaries

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

• As a senior threat intelligence analyst, you will track sophisticated adversaries and use your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques to enhance detections and provide actionable intelligence to partner teams. You will partner closely with the Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) team, the Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC), and other security organizations at Microsoft to provide threat hunting methodologies and best practices. You will identify new data sources for threat hunting to fill gaps and increase visibility. In this role you will be responsible for collaborating with external stakeholders to conduct information sharing to further investigations and threat hunting.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years tracking advanced persistent threat actors and enabling network and host defenses in organizations with demonstrable impact.
• 2+ years supporting enterprise security partners on cyber espionage investigations.
• Extensive attribution experience creating threat groups, assessing connections between established threat groups, and communicating attribution assessments to internal stakeholders and customers in a timely manner. 
• A proven track record of surfacing threat actor intrusions previously undetected by defense teams and tool Proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.  
• Experience with endpoint, cloud, network, and identity-based attacks and datasets.
• Excellent communication skills and investigative practices  
• Security screenings- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Python and scripting knowledge
• Jupyter Notebooks Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation experience.
• Visualization tools
  
  

Security Screenings - Microsoft Cloud Background Check

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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