Cloud Security Researcher

3 days ago

Hyderabad, India Microsoft Full time

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Security is a top priority for Microsoft because it is a top concern for our customers. Microsoft’s security team has invested deeply to build strong security capabilities across Microsoft Defender product portfolio. The fight against cybercrime requires defenders to be adaptive and responsive to the rapidly evolving threat landscape. To protect our customers from an adaptive adversary and help them manage complexity, we in turn need to innovate. Our security researchers provide the foundation of our innovation cycle, building detections and mitigations, understanding the full breadth of impact experienced by our customers, and driving novel and durable protection. We are building cutting-edge security solutions that gives customers visibility and control, helps them stay ahead of cyber threats as they evolve.

If you are obsessed about solving problems, interested in fighting cybercrime and developing state of the art security products, come join us and protect millions of users all around the globe

**Responsibilities**:

- Fully uncovering and documenting attacker campaigns to drive broad product protections.
- Tracking adversary activities, insights from security researchers, and real incidents to develop attacker tradecraft and support durable detection innovations.
- Respond to critical customer escalations to resolve detection effectiveness issues and engage with relevant partner teams to drive great customer experiences.
- Conduct research that yields new insights, hypothesis, algorithms, and prototypes that advance state-of-the-art of threat protection.
- Improve the quality, effectiveness and accuracy of various detections running in our products such as MDO (Microsoft Defender for Office).

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of computer security industry experience
- 1+ years of coding and scripting experience (Regex, Python, SQL, KQL)
- Experience authoring and interacting with big data solutions to pull and analyse data
- Experience working through ambiguity to drive innovations in detections
- Broad, general familiarity with the threat landscape affecting enterprise customers
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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