Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

We are looking for a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our team! 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.

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. 

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. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is recruiting experienced nation-state threat hunters – with highly honed threat intelligence analysis skills. MSTIC provides unique insight on threats to protect Microsoft and our customers and is responsible for delivering timely threat intelligence across our product and services teams.  

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

• Track sophisticated adversaries and use your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques.
• Define, develop, and implement techniques to discover and track current adversaries and identify the attacks of tomorrow.
• Produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive hunting, detection and Microsoft's threat actor understanding.
• Responsible for collaborating with stakeholders from MSTIC and key security groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.
• Strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers. 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ 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

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.  

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ 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
• Experience producing actionable Threat Intelligence on advanced persistent threat actors (APTs)
• Experience tracking APT campaigns using industry standard models including the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Proven ability to document and communicate your analytic findings to a wide range of stakeholders ranging from technical colleagues and executive readers
• Experience collaborating within the wider Threat intelligence community and working within threat intelligence sharing groups Experience working to support incident response investigations

Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 17th, 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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