Microsoft is hiring Cyber Security Threat Analyst.
We are looking for a passionate data driven security analyst who is ready to jump in and help us deliver innovative and scalable solutions that can protect the company and our customers.
Responsibilities
- Collect, process and analyze open source reporting as well as 1st and 3rd party threat intelligence feeds for relevance to Microsoft.
- Work with security teams and risk managers to provide data driven insights into existing and emerging threats.
- Leverage threat intelligence to improve the prioritization of preventative controls and mitigations to improve defenses of Microsoft.
- Deliver relevant and actionable Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) to teams across Microsoft to improve our ability to detect threats in our environment.
- Support response to internal incidents by managing intelligence collected during investigations and building a common understanding of threat activities.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required
- 3+ years of Information Security or relevant consulting experience.
- Very strong understanding of cyber threat attack vectors, how they are used, and methods to detect and mitigate them.
- Strong analysis skills and the ability to bring complex data together to answer security and risk related questions.
- Good understanding of prevention, detection and response capabilities (Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Log Analysis, anti-malware, SIEM etc.) and how they help prevent and detect attacks.
- Experience analyzing security events and logs.
- Familiar with expected data types and sources needed to conduct incident investigations.
- Good presentation skills and experience distilling complex security topics into concise and relevant material for both security and non-security professionals.
- Worked as an incident responder or as a tier 2/3 SOC analyst.
- Experience as an intelligence analyst and comfortable with the collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination of intelligence.
- Understanding of risk management techniques and frameworks.
- Familiar with SQL and the ability to query relational databases. Experience with Hadoop, HDInsight, and GraphDBs is also helpful.
- Experience with business intelligence and analysis tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Maltego, Analyst Notebook and Excel.