Microsoft Corporation Looking for Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Ontario Full Time

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. We are looking to hire a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our team!

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. 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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries. You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations. Apply knowledge of the phases of a cyber operation – particularly how to work across the phases to uncover new intelligence. You will be working with products and services to improve security for customers both strategic and tactical threat intelligence customers, including evaluating their requirements.

Successful applicants should have experience with the following:  

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

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

• Tracked APT adversaries over many years ascertaining and characterizing various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and campaigns.   

• 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. 

• Experience supporting incident response and deeply familiar with common incident response procedures, processes, and tools.

Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

o OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

• 4+ years expeirence in at least one of the following: Producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent threats enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact; OR  Expertise tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns. 

• 4+ years experience in at least one of the following: Cloud intrusion analysis in adversary operations; OR analyzing sophisticated malware samples used in targeted attacks against large corporate or government entities; OR analyzing host forensic and log data associated with advanced targeted adversaries  that proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.  

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.

• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• Experience with Azure incident response investigations Expertise in cloud networking, cloud application development & cloud APIs Experience in enterprise incident response and in handling multiple data sets using languages such Python Python and scripting knowledge, Jupyter Notebooks Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation experience Visualization tools.

Security Research IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $104,000 – CAD $193,200 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 8, 2024.

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