Cybersecurity Expert

11 hours ago


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Microsoft Full time

Microsoft Security aims to make the world a safer place for everyone. We aspire to reshape security and empower users, customers, and developers with a comprehensive security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

About Microsoft

We accelerate Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure our company and industry secure digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Security Researcher with deep expertise and a track record of successful security research delivery to tackle challenging problems related to the discovery of threat actors targeting Microsoft and our customers.

You will achieve this by working closely with the threat intelligence analyst community to build new insights and automate tracking of threat actors through your deep expertise in security product and platform internals.

This is a broad field, and we welcome interest from accomplished security researchers with a wide variety of prior expertise.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Harness your deep security research background and expertise to design and build new detection capabilities driven by threat intelligence and apply these to protect both Microsoft and customers.
  2. Discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry.
  3. Design and implement cutting-edge cyber security research projects.
  4. Breed security capabilities and tooling in at least one programming language, such as Python, C#, C++.
Requirements
  • 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.
  • 5+ years experience working on and leading cutting-edge cyber security research projects.
  • 3+ years experience building security capabilities and tooling in at least one programming language.
Preferred Qualifications
  • 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience working with large datasets for the purpose of security research using SQL or KQL – and a passion for security data.
  • Experience of Identity, Cloud Apps and Microsoft Cloud related security research, attacks, threat hunting and detection.
  • Experience writing production-quality code and working on production systems, ideally in C# and running on Kubernetes.
Salary Information

The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.


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