Threat Intelligence Analyst Ii

3 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Microsoft Full time

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.
- 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._

**Responsibilities**:
As a Threat Intelligence Analyst II, in this role you be responsible for identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries.
- You need to be persuasive in getting buy-in for their ideas both within MSTIC (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Centre) and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, for example the Microsoft Defender anti-malware team, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft assets and Microsoft’s wider customer base through improved product and services offerings.
- You will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones with key organizations deliver benefit to Microsoft and its customers.
- Applied knowledge of the phases of a cyber operation - particularly how to work across the phases to uncover new intelligence is essential.
- You will have experience of working with: products and services to improve security for customers. both strategic and tactical threat intelligence customers, including evaluating their requirements. a diverse organization to gain support for your ideas.
- Both a demonstrated capability to coherently present potentially sensitive threat intelligence to a wide variety of audiences in public forums and experience working with a variety of external partners working on sensitive threat intelligence issues.
- You will be persuasive in getting buy-in for your ideas both within the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and from key engineering groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft assets and Microsoft’s wider customer base through improved product and services offerings.

Other
- Embody our Culture and Values

**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

**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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

**Additional/Preferred Qualifications**
- Technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques that can be applied to define, develop, and implement the techniques both to discovery and track the adversaries of today and identify the attacks of tomorrow.
- Experience producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent adversaries enabling network and host defenses in external organizations with demonstrable impact.
- Tracked APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) adversaries over a period of at least one year ascertaining and characterizing various TTPs (Tactics Techniques and Procedures), capabilities, infrastructure, and campaigns.
- Knowledge across all critical elements and common data types used in threat intelligence analysis, including malware used in targeted adversary campaigns; host and log forensics including methods of data collection and analytic techniques; and network forensics including common protocols and how those are used in adversary operations.
- Knowledge of a variety of adversary command and control methods and protocols.
- Experience supporting incident response and deeply familiar with common incident response procedures, processes, and tools.

Security Research IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $79,600 - CAD $153,000 per year.

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