Penetration Testing Specialist

17 hours ago

Sydney, Australia Microsoft Full time

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft 365 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 365 Security team accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company is securing our platforms, devices, and clouds. 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.

Are you passionate about identifying and exploiting security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of millions of users across the world? Join the M365 Security organization, where you will emulate real-world advanced persistent threats against Microsoft. Our mission is to ensure Microsoft is prepared to face and respond to even the most determined adversaries by exploring innovative ways to identify and prevent security flaws.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

**Responsibilities**:

- Discover and exploit vulnerabilities end-to-end in order to assess the security of services.
- Execute operations using real world adversarial tactics and techniques to validate a production service's ability to detect, investigate, and respond.
- Advocate for security change across the company through building partnerships and clearly communicating impact of risks.
- Analyze a wide array of data sources to identify potential security weaknesses and breach points within Microsoft’s infrastructure.
- Prototype tools and techniques to scale and accelerate offensive emulation and vulnerability discovery.
- Collaborate with Blue Teams to improve readiness and produce solutions for defenders and customers.
- Analyze simulated adversary tactics and communications, enriching our defensive tactics and threat intelligence.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- 3+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.

**Other Requirements**:
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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science- OR related field
- OR 4+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.

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