Senior Cyber Investigations Analyst
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 25, 2024 | |
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OverviewDo you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with to protect petabytes of business-critical customer data? Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft's cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients. We are seeking a Senior Cyber Investigations Analyst to help us grow our team of security professionals to protect our customers against all threats by delivering & managing effective investigations.Do you have a passion for data and security, comfortable with ambiguity and acceptance of the need to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure, combined with a proven ability to sift through data datasets to extract valuable insights. If so then this might be the role for you.This team will leverage the billions of signals surfaced across our services in Office 365, Azure Active Directory (AAD), and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), conducting cutting edge threat research, state of the art ML/AI and human expertise to fully analyze and investigate potential abuse, adversary activity and a multitude of other potential malicious an nefarious activity on our platform. 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'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.
ResponsibilitiesRespond to and investigate sophisticated threats with information from a wide variety of sources, and ensure similar scenarios are prevented in the future.Perform forensic investigation on suspected compromised assets and analyze log data to determine what occurred.Collaborate with the team to create adversary eviction and incident remediation plans.Analyze and improve situational awareness, monitoring coverage, and incident response capabilitiesInvestigate, analyze and eradicate threats proactivelyDesign, develop, and deliver tooling to assist the investigative process.Create technical documentation for other analysts and other teams to follow.Embody our Culture and Values | |