Overview
The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Do you consider yourself an highly skilled on targeted threats, human-operated ransomware, and intrusion detection? We’re looking for an innovative threat intelligence specialist with proven technical leadership capability to help protect Microsoft and its customers against targeted attacks by identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries.
We are looking to hire a Principal Security Research Manager to join our team fully remote.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Security Research Manager, you will:
- Work with security specialists and threat hunters to translate strategic security priorities into intelligence requirements.
- Manage a team of intelligence analysts
- Help oversee threat intelligence production workflows and create new standards and processes to ensure threat focused teams meet security objectives and core priorities.
- Step in to write, review, and/or edit finished intelligence products to provide customers with the information needed to combat the latest threats
- Focus on delivering new threat intelligence value to start protecting customers early, and an iterative approach for incremental improvements thereafter.
- Strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations benefiting Microsoft and its customers.
- Be proactive in getting buy-in for your ideas both within the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, working in partnership to protect Microsoft and our customers through improved product and service offerings.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/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 analys
