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.

Our team is looking for a "Senior Threat Intelligence Anaylst". 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. 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.

Other 

• Embody our culture and values.

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. 
• 4+ years expeirence in at least one of the following: Producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent threats enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact; OR  Expertise tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns. 
• 4+ years experience in at least one of the following: Cloud intrusion analysis in adversary operations; OR analyzing sophisticated malware samples used in targeted attacks against large corporate or government entities; OR analyzing host forensic and log data associated with advanced targeted adversaries  that proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.  

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 

• 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 with Azure incident response investigations Expertise in cloud networking, cloud application development & cloud APIs Experience in enterprise incident response and in handling multiple data sets using languages such Python Python and scripting knowledge, Jupyter Notebooks Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation experience Visualization tools.

Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 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 January 30, 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. 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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