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 Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is recruiting experienced nation-state threat hunters – with highly honed threat intelligence analysis skills. MSTIC provides unique insight on threats to protect Microsoft and our customers and is responsible for delivering timely threat intelligence across our product and services teams.

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.

This position is 100% remote, therefore we are open to applicants within Europe that are outside of the advertised location.

Responsibilities

As a senior threat intelligence analyst, you will track sophisticated adversaries and use your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques.

You will define, develop, and implement techniques to discover and track current adversaries and identify the attacks of tomorrow.

Through mentorship, you will help build the capabilities of junior analysts.

You will produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive hunting and detection capabilities.

In this role you will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders from MSTIC and key engineering groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft assets and Microsoft’s customer base through improved product and services offerings.

You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers.

Qualifications

4+ years producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent threats enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact.

Expertise tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns.

Strong understanding in at least one of the following:

1. cloud intrusion analysis in adversary operations;

2. investigating sophisticated malware samples used in targeted attacks against large corporate or government entities;

3. analyzing host forensic and log data associated with advanced targeted adversaries;  

4. Proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.

You will also be responsible for building and maintaining partnerships and must have:

• A demonstrated capability to coherently and strategically present potentially sensitive threat intelligence to a wide variety of audiences in public forums, tailoring and recognizing various levels of technical and policy knowledge.

• Experience working on sensitive threat intelligence with a variety of external partners, including either or both of: EU institutions and organizations, and EU member state governments.

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