[Hiring] Senior Security Delivery Expert @Microsoft

Role Description

Microsoft Defender Experts Team is looking for an experienced professional to join our detection and response team. No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 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 Microsoft 365 Defender 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 Microsoft 365 Defender, across the attacker kill-chain, coupled with world-class detections. We are looking for someone who is passionate about this work to help us 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.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new cloud detection and response innovations, as well as to ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products and services.
• Partner with your team of Microsoft Threat Experts providing deep research and analysis of threats impacting our customers.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and business leaders to innovate and deliver new security service offerings at a global scale.
• Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions/strategies across customer tools.
• Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the products that support Defender Experts service offerings.
• Provide technical leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship‑based legal restrictions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing/Red Team.
• 4+ years of people/service delivery management experience, or relevant experience demonstrating customer interaction/support delivery.
• Experience leading a security function for a customer (i.e.: SOC manager, solution lead, Security engineer).
• Knowledge of operating system internals and attack techniques in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platforms.
• Experience with data analysis and cyber threat investigations in Sentinel.
• Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques.
• Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns.
• Experienced with curation of Threat Intelligence and delivering customer briefings.
• Ability to use data to 'tell a story'.
• 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.
• Additional advanced technical degrees or cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC certifications.

Benefits

• Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.