Principal Applied Threat Intelligence Manager
Job Location:
Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
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 Microsofts 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.
Microsoft Security Research is at the front line of defending Microsoft customers and the broader ecosystem against the worlds most sophisticated threat actors. Our Applied Threat Intelligence team tracks the threat landscape and the threat actors that target our customers; where they have been where they are today and predict where they will be tomorrow. We partner deeply across Microsoft Threat Intelligence product engineering and research to ensure our customers stay ahead of threats.
Responsibilities
Manage a team of Applied Threat Intelligence analysts to lead with AI to understand the threat landscape and the latest attacker tradecraft.
Track threat actors including financially motivated threat actors; their infrastructure their targets and their shifting techniques tactics and procedures.
Translate complex technical findings into clear prescriptive guidance for security operations teams executives and the broader defender community.
Partner with product research marketing and communications teams to ensure high-quality intelligence experiences through Microsofts customer-facing surfaces and managed services (Agentic Security Defender XDR Defender Experts Sentinel blogs briefings).
Build and refine the pipelines tooling and workflows that allow Microsoft to stream insightful cyber threat intelligence to customers machine speed.
Represent Microsoft Threat Intelligence in customer briefings industry conferences and cross-industry working groups.
Mentor analysts and contribute to tradecraft analytic standards and team-wide knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Doctorate in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 3 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR Masters Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 4 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR Bachelors Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 6 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR equivalent experience.
1 year(s) people management experience.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenshipbased legal restrictions. Specifically this position supports United States federal state and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenshipbased restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
Preferred Qualifications:
Doctorate in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 5 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR Masters Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 8 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR Bachelors Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Computer Security or related field AND 12 years experience in software development lifecycle large-scale computing threat analysis or modeling cybersecurity vulnerability research and/or anomaly detection.
OR equivalent experience.
3 years people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience.
10 years of experience in cyber threat intelligence threat hunting incident response or a closely related security discipline.
Attribution experience creating threat groups assessing connections between established threat groups and communicating attribution assessments to internal stakeholders and customersin a timely manner.
Demonstrated experience producing finished threat intelligence reporting for technical and/or executive audiences.
Working experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR (or directly comparable SIEM/XDR platforms).
Understanding of adversary tradecraft the cyber kill chain and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK the Diamond Model and structured analytic techniques.
Written and verbal communication skills with a portfolio of public or customer-facing intelligence writing.
Experience tracking and defending against financially motivated threat actors.
Experience with endpoint cloud network and identity-based attacks and datasets.
Experience with AI tools and large language models building agents and skills for information security applications and pipelines.
Comprehensive OS security/internals knowledge.
Understanding of network protocols and analytical experience with network infrastructure data & telemetry.
Reverse-engineering with static and behavioral binary analysis experience.
Functional understanding of common threat analysis models such as the Diamond Model Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK.
Programming or scripting background (Python PowerShell C# C etc.)
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Security Research M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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