We are the Security and Compliance (S+C) team; we are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated tooling for securing important data. S+C fosters an agile development environment, continuously gathering and analyzing data to combat evolving threats. Our mission is to help protect customers with truly innovative proactive protection, advise customers on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships.

As the Research organization within S+C, it’s our job to stay one step ahead of malicious adversaries and predict the threats of the future. We work with partners across Microsoft to innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, attacker techniques, their tools and infrastructure.

We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference for all of our customers, from end-users to Fortune 50 enterprises.

Responsibilities

We build innovative security and data compliance products. Our security products are brought together in the Microsoft 365 Defender suite. M365 Defender enables Microsoft’s enterprise customers to detect, investigate, understand, and respond to advanced threats on their networks via a combination of behavioral sensors, cloud security analytics, and threat intelligence.

The Microsoft Threat Experts Team is looking for threat hunters! No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft Defender will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. Our team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from our sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that MTP customers are well equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments.

Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by MTP, across the attacker kill-chain, coupled with world-class detections.  We’re looking for a skilled hunter to harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.

Primary responsibilities would include:

Explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques, monitor and catalog changes in activity group tradecraft, and generate custom alerts for enterprise customers.

Work with customer support teams to support investigation and response during an enterprise’s time of need.

Collaborate with our data science and threat research teams to develop and maintain accurate and durable cloud-based detections.

Build hunting tools and automations for use in the discovery of human adversaries.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements include:

3+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing/Red Team

Advanced experience using analysis tools (e.g. file/network/OS monitoring tools and/or debuggers)

Advanced knowledge of operating system internals and security mechanisms

Experience analyzing attacker techniques that leverage email and cloud-service tactics

Skilled working with extremely large data sets, using tools and scripting languages such as: Excel, SQL, Python, Splunk, KQL, and PowerBI

Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate business need for detection improvements

Strong ability to use data to ‘tell a story’

The following additional experiences are favorable, but not required:

Technical BS degree preferred in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Mathematics, or Physics

1+ years of experience developing software or tools using C++, C#, Python, Ruby, or similar

Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning models

Experience with system administration in a large enterprise environment including Windows and Linux servers and workstations, network administration, cloud administration

Experience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networks

Experience with advanced persistent threats and human adversary compromises

Additional advanced technical degrees or cyber security based certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC certifications

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.