Principal Threat Intelligence Manager

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 Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We aim to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a comprehensive security cloud that offers end-to-end, simplified solutions. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best every day. By doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center provides unique insight on threats to protect Microsoft and our customers.

Do you consider yourself an expert on targeted threats, human-operated ransomware, and intrusion detection? We’re looking for an innovative threat intelligence experts with proven technical leadership capability to help protect Microsoft and its customers against targeted attacks by identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries. 

We are looking to hire a Principal Threat Intelligence Manager to join our team in Reston, VA.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Threat Intelligence Manager, you will:

• Work with security experts and threat hunters to translate strategic security priorities into intelligence requirements.
• Managie people from a range of disciplines including both analysts and developers
• Help oversee threat intelligence workflows and create new standards and processes to ensure threat focused teams meet security objectives and core priorities.
• Focus on delivering new threat intelligence value to start protecting customers early, and an iterative approach for incremental improvements thereafter.
• Strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations benefiting Microsoft and its customers.
• Be proactive in getting buy-in for your ideas both within the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, working in partnership to protect Microsoft and our customers through improved product and service offerings.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection. 
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 1+ year(s) people management experience.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• 4+ years experience in the security domain, to include both detailed understanding of attacker techniques and tracking the threat actors behind specific campaigns.
• 2+ years experience leading a multi-disciplinary team including cloud-based engineering.
• Knowledge of the Diamond Model (Adversary, Infrastructure, Capability, and Victim) and how those features interact during adversary operations - particularly how to pivot through the Diamond to uncover new intelligence.
• Proven ability to relate technical research advances and insights to business impact.
• Expertise in managing customer escalations and complex work streams with quick turnaround deliverables 
• Experience with Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation Experience with Reverse-engineering & binary analysis.
• Experience with Visualization tools.
• Expertise in cloud networking, cloud application development & cloud APIs. 

Security Research M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 14, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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