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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. Microsoft Security Research is at the front line of defending Microsoft customers and the broader ecosystem against the world's most sophisticated threat actors. Our Applied Threat Intelligence team tracks the threat landscape and the threat actors that target our customers; where they have been, where they are today, and predict where they will be tomorrow. We partner deeply across Microsoft Threat Intelligence, product engineering, and research to ensure our customers stay ahead of threats.
Job Responsibility
Manage a team of Applied Threat Intelligence analysts to lead with AI to understand the threat landscape and the latest attacker tradecraft
Track threat actors, including financially motivated threat actors
their infrastructure, their targets, and their shifting techniques, tactics, and procedures
Translate complex technical findings into clear, prescriptive guidance for security operations teams, executives, and the broader defender community
Partner with product, research, marketing, and communications teams to ensure high-quality intelligence experiences through Microsoft's customer-facing surfaces and managed services
Build and refine the pipelines, tooling, and workflows that allow Microsoft to stream insightful cyber threat intelligence to customers machine speed
Represent Microsoft Threat Intelligence in customer briefings, industry conferences, and cross-industry working groups
Mentor analysts and contribute to tradecraft, analytic standards, and team-wide knowledge sharing
Requirements
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years 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 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
OR equivalent experience
1+ year(s) people management experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Must pass Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Verification of U.S. citizenship via a valid passport
Nice to have
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience
OR Master's Degree AND 8+ years experience
OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience
3+ years people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience
10+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or a closely related security discipline