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Senior Security Researcher

2 months ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Microsoft Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Expert to join our team at Microsoft. As a Senior Security Researcher, you will play a critical role in helping us protect our customers from emerging threats and vulnerabilities.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Threat Hunting: Perform deep analysis of attacker activity in on-premises and cloud environments to identify potential threats and notify customers of imminent attacker activity.
  2. Incident Response: Assist customers with incident response and provide recommendations to improve their cybersecurity posture.
  3. Threat Intelligence: Develop and maintain threat intelligence knowledge to prepare customers to defend against today's threat landscape.
  4. Product Improvement: Drive product and tooling improvements by conveying learnings from threat hunting and incident response to engineering partner teams.
  5. Complex Security Issues: Identify, prioritize, and target complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers and create mitigations to address these issues.
Requirements
  1. 5+ years of experience in large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
  2. OR Experience with threat hunting, digital forensics, reverse engineering, incident response, etc.
  3. OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
  1. Investigation/Cybersecurity/Digital Forensics/DFIR certifications (e.g. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (SANS), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) etc.).
  2. Technical certifications based on domain (e.g., Azure, SharePoint).
  3. Experience with Active Directory and/or cloud identity.
  4. Experience with sophisticated threat actor evidence, including familiarity with typical Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), Indicators of Activity (IOAs), and Tools, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
  5. Use of forensic analysis tools such as X-Ways Forensics, WinHex, Encase, FTK, etc.
  6. Microsoft Azure and/or Office365 platform knowledge and experience.
  7. Experience with various forensic log artifacts found in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) logs, web server logs, Antivirus (AV) logs, protection logs such as Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) logs.
  8. Familiarity with Microsoft Defender 365 security stack (for Endpoints, Identity, Cloud, etc), especially with Advanced Hunting query writing.
  9. Understanding of Windows and Azure internals and where trace evidence can be found.
  10. Knowledge of third-party cybersecurity solutions, especially Extended Detection and Response (EDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.
  11. Experience working with consulting companies is a plus.
  12. Linux and/or macOS forensic analysis and threat hunting skills.
About Microsoft

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances.