Senior Security Researcher

Senior Security Researcher role for the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team!

• Performing deep analysis of attacker activity in on-premises and cloud environments
• Identifying potential threats, allowing for proactive defense before an actual incident
• Notifying customers regarding imminent attacker activity
• Providing recommendations to improve customers' cybersecurity posture going forward and performing threat intelligence knowledge transfer to prepare customers to defend against today’s threat landscape
• Building proof-of-concept and prototype threat hunting tools, automations, and new capabilities
• Driving product and tooling improvements by conveying learnings from threat hunting and incident response at scale to engineering partner teams
• Identifying, prioritizing, and targeting complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers
• Creating and driving adoption of relevant mitigations and providing proactive guidance
• Working with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues
• Sharing across teams
• Driving change within team based on research findings

• 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• Proven knowledge of security fundamentals across Microsoft platforms (Client, Server, Cloud)
• Strong understanding of malware and the modern threat landscape

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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