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 Defender Experts Team is looking for a Senior Security Researcher to help us harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.
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.

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience in areas of Cyber Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, Penetration Testing/Red Team, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• Experience analyzing attacker techniques that leverage email and cloud-service tactics.
• Experience in working with extremely large data sets, using tools and scripting languages such as: Excel, KQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
• 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

• 6+ years experience in areas of Cyber Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, Penetration Testing/Red Team, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge of operating system internals, OS security mitigations & understanding of Security challenges in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platforms.
• Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques.
• Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate business need for detection improvements.
• Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns.
• Experience with direct customer communication in a service delivery role and ability to use data to ‘tell a story’.
• Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning models.
• Experience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networks.
• Cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC
  Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
  Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 24, 2024.
  

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• Explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel and sophisticated attack techniques, monitor and catalog changes in activity group tradecraft, and generate custom alerts for enterprise customers.
• Work with customer support teams to support investigation and response during an enterprise’s time of need.
• Collaborate with our data science and threat research teams to develop and maintain accurate and durable cloud-based detections.
• Build hunting tools and automations for use in the discovery of human adversaries.

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• Embody our Culture and Values