Senior Security Researcher

7 months ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom 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 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.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence have unique optics into end-to-end attacks and how different stages manifest across our telemetry: we join the dots and show the art of the possible. The Threat Intelligence Product Research team build proof-of-concepts showcasing new detection capability through novel correlation and analysis ideas, embed Threat Intelligence, and then achieve global impact by partnering across the company to make these a reality in customer-facing security solutions.
- 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._

**Responsibilities**:

- Undertake personal research and collaborate with other researchers to understand current and emerging cloud-based attacks and detection opportunities.
- Partner with the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps research team to research and build new TI-based detections.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- Mid-level experience working in cyber security research.
- Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Python or C#
- Experience working with large datasets for the purpose of security research, using a query language such as SQL or KQL.
- Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience of cloud identity related security research, attacks, threat hunting and detection.
- Experience building threat detections for security products.

**Additional Required Qualifications**

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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