Do you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with to protect petabytes of business-critical customer data?

Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients.

We are seeking a Senior Cyber Investigations Analyst to help us grow our team of security professionals to protect our customers against all threats by delivering & managing effective investigations. Do you have a passion for data and security, comfortable with ambiguity and acceptance of the need to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure, combined with a proven ability to sift through data datasets to extract valuable insights. If so then this might be the role for you. This team will leverage the billions of signals surfaced across our services in Office 365, Azure Active Directory (AAD), and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), conducting cutting edge threat research, state of the art ML/AI and human expertise to fully analyze and investigate potential abuse, adversary activity and a multitude of other potential malicious an nefarious activity on our platform.

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’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.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and investigate sophisticated threats with information from a wide variety of sources, and ensure similar scenarios are prevented in the future.

• Perform forensic investigation on suspected compromised assets and analyze log data to determine what occurred.

• Collaborate with the team to create adversary eviction and incident remediation plans.

• Analyze and improve situational awareness, monitoring coverage, and incident response capabilities

• Investigate, analyze and eradicate threats proactively

• Design, develop, and deliver tooling to assist the investigative process.

• Create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.

• Embody ourCulture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) andValues (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

• 3+ years of experience working with adversary & cyber intel frameworks such as kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and Diamond Model.

• 3+ years experience with big data and Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel.

• 3+ years experience working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI.

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:

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience performing development and code debugging with functional or object-oriented programming such as .NET or Java.

• Demonstrate ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management.

• Expectation to learn new tools and techniques every day.

• Good working knowledge of common security, encryption, and protocols such as encryption, PKI, modern authentication and cloud app authorization architectures and protocols such as SAML or OAUTH.

• Past experience working in large scale enterprise products: M365 products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, Teams.

• Deep and practical OS security/internals knowledge for Linux and Windows.Exposure to security related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and malware analysis.

• Ability to rapidly automate data handling and data curation using PowerShell, Python, Azure Data Factory, and various Azure-based tools.

• Hands-on experience building Azure-based services with Azure Resource Manager (ARM), ARM templates, ARM policy, IaaS, VMSS, KeyVault, EventHub, Azure Active Directory (AAD), etc.

• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Azure DevOps and Agile Scrum.

• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and respond favorably to change.

• Comfortable working in a startup mode on a new team where there is lots of opportunity.

• Certifications like GCIA, GSLC, GCIH, CISM, CISSP, CEH, Etc. are plus.

Security Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 3, 2024.

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