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Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center provides unique insight on threat to protect Microsoft and our customers. Do you consider yourself an expert on targeted threats, human-operated ransomware, and intrusion detection? We’re looking for an innovative threat intelligence experts with proven technical leadership capability to help protect Microsoft and its customers against targeted attacks by identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries. You are a seasoned cybersecurity leader with experience of managing people from a range of disciplines including both analysts and developers. You care deeply about the customer experience, and that drives how you prioritize the technical work of the team. You are results-driven, with a focus on delivering new threat intelligence value to start protecting customers early, and an iterative approach for incremental improvements thereafter. You enjoy finding creative ways to leverage new technologies.

Responsibilities

This role requires cross-team and cross-geo collaboration, and an ability to represent highly technical research and threat information to a range of audiences. This ranges from other security subject matter experts (inside and outside the company) to partner teams and supporting some customer engagements. You will be persuasive in getting buy-in for your ideas both within the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft assets and also Microsoft’s wider customer base through improved product and services offerings. You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations deliver benefit to Microsoft and its customers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in the security domain, to include both detailed understanding of attacker techniques and tracking the threat actors behind specific campaigns.

• 2+ years experience leading a multi-disciplinary team including cloud-based engineering.

• Proven ability to relate technical research advances and insights to business impact.

• Strong knowledge of the Diamond Model (Adversary, Infrastructure, Capability, and Victim) and how those features interact during adversary operations - particularly how to pivot through the Diamond to uncover new intelligence.

Optional Qualifications:

• Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation experience.

• Reverse-engineering & binary analysis.

• Visualization tools.

• Expertise in cloud networking, cloud application development & cloud APIs.

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.

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