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Microsoft Incident Response – the Detection and Response Team (DART) – part of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization – is seeking a Cybersecurity Incident Response Manager to lead its global incident response team. DART is Microsoft’s elite cybersecurity task force, providing holistic incident response and investigation services to customers facing advanced cyber threats. In this role, you will manage and mentor a worldwide team of security engineers and responders, coordinate complex customer investigations, and drive the development of DART’s response capabilities in collaboration with other Microsoft security partners2. You will operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, tackling sophisticated security incidents across cloud and on-premises environments on a daily basis.
Job Responsibility:
People Management: Responsible for mentoring, managing and leading a team of cyber security analysts, engineers, developers, leads and incident managers
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
Strategic Initiatives: Secure partner relationships and work closely with internal product and services groups as well as co-delivering with Microsoft’s Partner ecosystem
Develop and mentor individual contributors through open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes
Develop and maintain objectives, metrics and KPIs supporting the department’s strategic direction and continuously improve incident response technical capabilities
Communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, verbally and in writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner
Present to a wide range and size of audiences from IT Pro, to CxO, to business decision makers
Technical leadership and executive presence to establish Trusted Technical Advisor to influence senior decision makers to mature and promote customer’s security posture across the overall technology landscape
Drive investigative teams to exhaust all investigative leads in the expectation of discovering novel attacker techniques
Investigate and research these techniques, and partner with threat intelligence and security engineering to drive security tooling and product enhancements
Synthesize threat data (telemetry) and evaluate the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research, cascading learnings as necessary across partner teams and customers alike, and drive change in our approach to better combat these threats
Leverage input from Threat Intelligence team, including strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence to benefit containment and hardening of customer environments, while keeping knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape
Similarly, share threat data with threat intelligence and engineering teams and drive research of threat actors and threat activity
Interface closely with and influence security product owners
Drive the evolution of both proactive and reactive detection and investigation capabilities
Business Operations: Maintain a profitable business while developing a strategy for significant growth
Influence product direction through customer experience and feedback of product capabilities during crisis
Engage directly with customers as a member of the engagement team, providing leadership and oversight to ensure profitability, high customer satisfaction, and operational excellence
Ensure delivery alignment with sales, and prioritize capacity and readiness planning against demand
Serve as liaison between technical response and the business to minimize the impact of an incident to the customer
Maintain business operations: Deliver against metrics, KPIs and other leading delivery operational and health indicators for our business unit
Responsible for technical and executive level reports on incident response issues
Design, document, and implement detection and incident response processes, procedures, guidelines, and solutions
This involves operation and continually improving existing DART process, as well as the development of new processes in response to evolving threats and business requirements
Ability to apply entrepreneurial and innovative mindset and attitude to adapt to the speed and agility needed for evolving business demands
Excellent time management, writing and communication skills
Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation
Short-notice travel will likely be 40% or higher as is demanded by the needs of our customers and our business
Requirements:
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field and several years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection and several years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field and several years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection OR equivalent experience
Many years of people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience
Strong analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
Track record of successfully managing a technical business group and maintaining consistent growth
Recognized as a strategic leader who can hire, retain and motivate diverse quality talent
Experience leading both a services organization and product development function
Develop business strategy and provide technical thought leadership
Manage customer engagements escalations to ensure customer satisfaction
Advanced technical degree or equivalent experience
Expert understanding of security technology and implementation principles with a focus on the cyber threat landscape
Strong oral and written communication, organization and interpersonal skills
Knowledge of the legal and regulatory landscape related to security and privacy in an international environment
Executive presence, ability to influence senior IT and Global Risk leaders, CISO, CTO, CIOs
Experience leading a global cross-functional team
Experience with the following: opportunity identification, customer advocacy, conflict resolution, competitor intelligence, challenger mindset, business acumen and analysis, executive presence, strategic technical planning, technology industry knowledge, trusted technical advisor
Nice to have:
Related work experience with some of the following is a distinct advantage: Demonstrated history of leading teams of Security threat hunting analysts, engineers and consultants to successfully investigate cases of advanced targeted exploitation or similar interactive hacking cases
Proven experience in helping enterprises manage vulnerabilities, measure security and ensure compliance
Recognized as a subject matter expert in various security disciplines with a deep understanding of real-world APT tools, tactics, and procedures
Cloud SaaS and PaaS experience and an understanding of investigations in those environments and leveraging cloud for investigation scale
Solid grasp of common cyber frameworks and models such as the MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, Pyramid of Pain, DeTT&CT and modern penetration testing techniques
International consulting experience is a plus
Eligibility for a government security clearance is a plus