Senior Security Investigations Analyst

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. 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.

 

We are looking for a Senior Security 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 Azure, M365, 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 and 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 and create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

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

• 5+ 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

• As stated in the job posting, this position requires verification of citizenship or other protected status to meet legal requirements of the role. If the role requires US citizenship, as indicated in the job description, a valid US passport must be provided to verify your citizenship. Can you meet the requirement stated in the job description? 

    

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. 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. Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree or Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • OR 7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• CISSP CISA CISM SANS GCIA GCIH OSCP Security+
• Previous experience performing development and code debugging with functional or object-oriented programming such as .NET or Java.
• 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: Azure or 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.
• 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 $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. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 23, 2025.

 

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.

 

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