Sr. Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 20, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Do you want to join the Microsoft GHOST team as a Senior Security Researcher?Do you have an interest in helping Microsoft's clients defend themselves against targeted exploitation? Are you interested in being intimately involved in the latest, cutting edge developments in the security industry and having a direct impact on the security of all Microsoft customers? Do you want to be on the front lines of helping our customers go toe-to-toe against advanced adversaries? Are you interested in a fast-paced job full of new opportunities? If so, you might be a candidate for the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage team (GHOST). We are looking for an experienced Senior Security Researcher with required analytical background to join our team to perform threat hunts, assist with investigations, develop threat intelligence, and to cultivate investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. . Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products. We are looking to fill multiple roles across levels. 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. Embody our Culture and Values
ResponsibilitiesThis role is part of a collaborative team, assisting our customers with:Performing analysis of attacker activity in on-premises and cloud environmentsIdentifying potential threats, allowing for proactive defense before an actual incidentNotifying customers regarding imminent attacker activityProviding recommendations to improve customers' cybersecurity posture going forward and performing threat intelligence knowledge transfer to prepare customers to defend against today's threat landscapeBuilding proof-of-concept and prototype threat hunting tools, automations, and new capabilitiesDriving product and tooling improvements by conveying learnings from threat hunting and incident response at scale to engineering partner teamsIdentifies, prioritizes, and targets complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers. Creates and drives adoption of relevant mitigations and provide proactive guidanceWorks with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues. Shares across teams. Drives change within team based on research findings. If you are looking for a role that will allow you to use your knowledge and experience to strengthen the security posture of customers, you will have a bright future in GHOST. | |