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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

• In this senior role, you will be responsible for identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries.

• You need to be persuasive in getting buy-in for your ideas both within MSTIC and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, such as the Microsoft Defender anti-malware team, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft assets and Microsoft’s wider customer base through improved product and service offerings.

• You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers.

• Applied knowledge of the phases of a cyber operation—particularly how to work across the phases to uncover new intelligence—is essential.

• You will have experience working with products and services to improve security for customers, both strategic and tactical threat intelligence customers, including evaluating their requirements, and with a diverse organization to gain support for your ideas.

• A demonstrated capability to coherently present potentially sensitive threat intelligence to a wide variety of audiences in public forums and experience working with a variety of external partners on sensitive threat intelligence issues is required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Strong technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques that can be applied to define, develop, and implement techniques both to discover and track the adversaries of today and identify the attacks of tomorrow.

• Expertise tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns 

• In depth experience producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent adversaries, enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact.

• Applied knowledge across all critical elements and common data types used in threat intelligence analysis, including malware used in targeted adversary campaigns; host and log forensics, including methods of data collection and analytic techniques; and network forensics, including common protocols and how those are used in adversary operations.

• Applied knowledge of a variety of adversary command and control methods and protocols.

• Strong experience supporting incident response and being deeply familiar with common incident response procedures, processes, and tools.

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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