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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Security represents a critical priority 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 secure 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, 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. 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. Aligning with Microsoft's mission and the focus of the Microsoft Security organization, this role is an integral part of a larger team dedicated to delivering world-class security operations that contain and evict threat actor activities.
Job Responsibility:
Coordinates with investigators to prioritize investigation objectives, understands attack paths, and systematically executes mitigation and protection actions to evict threat actors for any security incident impacting any of Microsoft’s products or services
Conducts hands-on mitigation where possible
engages service owners when there is a risk of a production outage
Maintains hands-on knowledge of mitigation and protection steps for various asset types (e.g. M365, Azure, AI) and publishes self-service guidance for impacted engineering teams
Briefs executive stakeholders on eviction plans and associated status
Maintains and evolves an inventory of threat actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the corresponding eviction capabilities
Define and prioritize requirements and use cases for Microsoft’s threat actor eviction platform
operationalize as they are delivered
Drives strategic change to accelerate eviction scenarios (e.g. lean business cases to garner support for broader Microsoft product initiatives or features)
Participates in an on-call rotation
Requirements:
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response
equivalent experience
Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
3+ years of hands-on experience working in cyber security incident response
7+ years of hands-on experience working in cybersecurity incident response
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field
Hands-on experience with incident response in Azure or Microsoft 365
Proficient with Kusto data query languages
Ability to work under pressure, structure unstructured problems and provide clarity where ambiguity exists
Ability to operate with autonomy, influence others, and a bias for action