Senior Security Delivery Expert

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Microsoft Defender Experts Team is looking for an experienced professional to join our detection and response team. No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 Defender will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. Our team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from our sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that Microsoft 365 Defender customers are well equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments. Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by Microsoft 365 Defender, across the attacker kill-chain, coupled with world-class detections. We are looking for someone who is passionate about this work to help us harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.

• Work directly with senior leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new cloud detection and response innovations, as well as to ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products and services.
• Partner with your team of Microsoft Threat Experts providing deep research and analysis of threats impacting our customers.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and business leaders to innovate and deliver new security service offerings at a global scale.
• Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions/strategies across customer tools.
• Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the products that support Defender Experts service offerings.
• Provide technical leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization.

• 7+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing/Red Team.
• 4+ years of people/service delivery management experience, or relevant experience demonstrating customer interaction/support delivery.
• Experience leading a security function for a customer, such as SOC manager, solution lead, or Security engineer.
• Knowledge of operating system internals and attack techniques in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS platforms.
• Experience with data analysis and cyber threat investigations in Sentinel. Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques.
• Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns. Experience with curation of Threat Intelligence and delivering customer briefings. Strong ability to use data to tell a story.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Ability to work from the office at least three (3) days per week. .

This 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.