Security 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.

The Identity security analyst team, IDFIRE, is the premier identity cyber threat hunting and investigation team in the industry. IDFIRE is responsible to identify and understand all novel attacks against user and application authentication by researchers, criminals and nation state actors. We partner with data scientists and engineers to ensure the integrity and security of the services we operate (Entra & Microsoft Account), as well as the consumer and commercial identities we manage. 

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.

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Responsibilities

We need curious and innovative cyber-detectives that can find needles in haystacks: writing creative queries against massive datasets and relentlessly searching for anomalous and malicious patterns.

• Respond to security incidents (on-call) everything from unexploited vulnerabilities to attacks against Microsoft and attacks against our customers. Identify compromise or fraud, build ad hoc detections, isolate, remediate, and determine root cause
• Investigate security incidents and find patterns and outliers ensuring we adapt our systems and develop/improve automated and timely detections
• Continually evaluate and improve existing algorithms, and create new ones, to detect and prevent systemic service vulnerabilities, identity compromise, fraud, and abuse
• Identify and analyze new data sources to find novel patterns that can be passed to engineering and transformed into new automated detections and protections
• Develop and enhance data analytics pipelines for cybersecurity and/or fraud investigations
• Collaborate with engineering and partner teams (MSTIC, MSRC, M365, XBox, Azure and others) in achieving our objectives

Qualifications

• Experience working with extremely large data sets
  
• Experience of using tools, Scripting languages or MapReduce solutions.
  
• Experience in cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, or data science
• OR BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent experience

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.

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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