Security Assurance Specialist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 25, 2024 | |
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OverviewCome build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.As a Security Assurance Specialist, you will gain expertise in analyzing threat trends and anomalies to determine operational impact and identify potential mitigation strategies. You will develop skills in identifying and escalating security defects or vulnerabilities, and begin to address security issues with customers and partners in a timely manner. Additionally, you will contribute to analysis reports and communicate findings and recommendations to decision makers, enhancing your problem-solving and communication abilities. 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.
ResponsibilitiesBegin to develop expertise in class or set of security issues, tools, mitigations, and processes (e.g., architecture, failure modes, attack chain, threat modeling, vulnerabilities). Ensure skills remain current by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments and proactively seeking new knowledge. Address security issues with customers and partners, using appropriate tools to isolate and solve problems, coordinating responses, and following up to ensure resolution. Escalate issues as needed. Schedule and adjust security analysis, prioritize work to meet deadlines, and support security research of Microsoft and competitor products. Analyze threat trends and anomalies to determine operational impact, identify threat vectors and mitigation strategies, and understand systemic security issues, deployment scenarios, and Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) theories. | |