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 Threat Intelligence Center is looking for a Pricipal Threat Intelligence Manager to lead a team of threat intelligence analysts responsible for producing and delivering threat intelligence content to support incident response investigations and internal Microsoft stakeholders. You will work closely with stakeholders from MSTIC and Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) to develop finished intelligence production workflows to deliver timely and relevant content. You will present highly technical research and threat information to a range of audiences. You will engage with customers to identify intelligence requirements and translate those requirements into intelligence deliverables that earn customer trust and demonstrate Microsoft’s threat intelligence expertise and thought leadership. This role requires cross-team and cross-geo collaboration.

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

Responsibilities Review threat intelligence deliverables to ensure customer satisfaction and develop standards for quality control.  Create and track threat intelligence production workflows and pipelines to support customers and internal stakeholders.  Engage with internal stakeholders to ensure threat intelligence content integrates with various product and service groups within Microsoft.    Curate catalog of threat intelligence deliverables to ensure coverage of critical threats and create new content types to fill identified gaps.    Develop metrics to measure effective delivery and customer satisfaction.   

Qualifications

Qualifications 

• 5+ years producing finished intelligence content on threat actors and attacker techniques including written reports, presentations, and visuals covering attribution, threat detection and hunting guidance, and remediation recommendations. 

• 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary team of threat intelligence analysts and reverse engineers focused on threat intelligence production for customers leveraging incident response data. 

• Proven ability to develop new threat intelligence content types, standards, and processes.  

• Expertise in managing customer escalations and complex work streams with quick turnaround deliverables.  

• Strong knowledge of customer requirements across a variety of industries and geos  Experience working with engineering resources to develop automated intelligence solutions.  

• Proven track record of working across cross-functional teams including threat hunters, incident responders, and customer delivery representatives.    

• Preferred Qualifications  Incident response or intrusion remediation experience  Expertise in providing dedicated finished intelligence support to customers.  

• Experience developing business strategy around threat intelligence production and delivery.  

• Strong oral and written communication, organization and interpersonal skills

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

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