Microsoft Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst 

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa 

337064728

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• years experiencein software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • ORMaster's Degreein Statistics, Mathematics, ComputerScienceor related field.
• 4+ years expeirence in at least one of the following: Producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent threats enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact; OR  Expertise tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns.
• 4+ years experience in at least one of the following: Cloud intrusion analysis in adversary operations; OR analyzing sophisticated malware samples used in targeted attacks against large corporate or government entities; OR analyzing host forensic and log data associated with advanced targeted adversaries  that proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.

to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsfor this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will beto pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• years experiencein software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, ComputerScienceor related field
• Experience with Azure incident response investigations Expertise in cloud networking, cloud application development & cloud APIs Experience in enterprise incident response and in handling multiple data sets using languages such Python Python and scripting knowledge, Jupyter Notebooks Network penetration testing and intrusion remediation experience Visualization tools.

Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

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As a 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. You will produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive hunting, detection and Microsoft's threat actor understanding. In this role you will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders from MSTIC and key security groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers. You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers.

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