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 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. 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 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. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Team 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 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 Cyber Defense Operations is looking for a **Cyber Security Investigator** for our US Government Cloud. As a Cyber Security Investigator, you will work closely with other cloud and security experts across Microsoft to investigate threats, proactively hunt for compromise, improve and automate processes, develop security tooling and data automation, and contribute your experience and expertise to countless other projects that enhance the security and scalability of our cloud services. You will be a part of defending our customer base focused on identifying new attacks, coordinating large scale response and investigating issues. The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations team seeks motivated, experienced security professionals to join our team. There are few places in Microsoft that have as much direct impact on as many customers as Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations team. The SOC within Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations is the front line that defends our customers that use Microsoft's Cloud platform and online services. The government security team further specializes in defending the Microsoft platforms that support and enable our U.S. Government partners. The Cyber Security Investigator will be excited about strengthening our cloud defenses and defending customers from emerging security threats. If you are excited about protecting customers, then this opportunity may be for you. We are a passionate team that constantly provides new opportunities to learn and grow. 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. 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, 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** • Perform cyber investigations on suspected vulnerable or compromised assets and services. Analyze log data and other artifacts to determine what occurred. • Identify potential issues with detection (e.g., false positives, noise). Analyze potential or actual intrusions identified as a result of monitoring activities. Create detections based on available data (e.g., Indicators of Compromise [IOC] and Tools Tactics Procedures [TTP]). • Plan and execute proactive adversary hunt for malicious activity using myriad log sources, network- and host-based tools, and threat intelligence to identify the threat actors and their tools and techniques. • Analyze key metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other data sources (e.g., bugs, unhealthy data pipeline) and identifies trends in security issues and escalates appropriately. Recommend improvements and/or metrics to address gaps in measurement. • Proactively identify and investigate potential issues in controls (e.g., network, identity, etc.). Leverage expertise and team members to address and drive down issues accordingly. Identify and/or recognize patterns and recommend potential mitigation strategies. • Identify and raise opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Create automation as appropriate to drive greater efficiency with high value. **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 3+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response. **Other Requirements:** Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: + The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. + **Clearance Verification** : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. + **Microsoft Cloud Background Check** : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. + **Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:** This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance. **Preferred Qualifications:** • Demonstrated working knowledge of common security, encryption, and protocols such as encryption, PKI, modern authentication and cloud app authorization architectures and protocols such as SAML or OAUTH. • Practical OS security/internals knowledge for Linux and/or Windows. • Exposure to security related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and malware analysis. • Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services. • Certifications like GCIA, GSLC, GCIH, CISM, CISSP, CEH, Etc. are plus. • Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management. Security Operations Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. \#MSFSecurity Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .