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.

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. 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 threat intelligence analyst, you will track sophisticated adversaries and use your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques. You will define, develop, and implement techniques to discover and track current adversaries and identify the attacks of tomorrow.
• You will produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive hunting, detection and Microsoft's threat actor understanding.
• In this role you will be 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.
• You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers. 

Qualifications

• 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.

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