Cybersecurity Lead Investigator

Teknik, data och digitalt · IT-infrastruktur och säkerhet · Cybersäkerhet

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Microsoft's Detection and Response Team (DART) is seeking a skilled Cybersecurity Lead Investigator to remotely join their team in the United States. This customer-facing role involves leading investigations, setting technical priorities, and guiding customers through complex security incidents, requiring shift work including weekends and public holidays.

Ansvarsområden

Orchestrate evidence-driven investigations and technical incident response.
Align specialist workstreams and communicate clear findings, priorities, and recommendations to customers.
Set investigation objectives, hypotheses, priorities, and evidence requirements; lead hands-on analysis and specialist workstreams across enterprise on-premises and cloud environments.
Contextualize and prioritize findings, correlate disparate evidence, and build cohesive incident timelines.
Assess adversary activity, compromise scope, and potential data collection or exfiltration; validate key findings and explain confidence and limitations of conclusions.
Direct technical response planning and recommendations to secure enterprise environments, balancing containment and recovery urgency with evidence preservation and customer business constraints.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for complex investigations; brief technical teams, executives, legal, compliance, engineering, and other stakeholders.
Identify skill, access, telemetry, and resource gaps early; work with incident coordinators and leadership to resolve dependencies.
Maintain investigative documentation and clear follow-the-sun handovers covering evidence, hypotheses, decisions, risks, and next actions.

Krav

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field OR Master's Degree AND 3+ years experience OR Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
Equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Required to work shift assignments during non-standard business hours, Friday through Monday: 10-hour shift scheduled between 8:00 AM - 6 PM EDT, Weekends and Public Holidays.

Önskade kvalifikationer

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years experience OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
Demonstrated hands-on experience leading large-scale, high-pressure cybersecurity incident response across on-premises and cloud environments.
Ability to correlate and assess evidence from multiple sources, reconstruct incident timelines, evaluate compromise scope and possible exfiltration.
Experience directing response activities while balancing rapid recovery, technical dependencies, and business impact.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical specialists and stakeholders, identify engagement gaps, request appropriate resources and manage investigations using a global follow-the-sun model.
Proven customer-facing written and verbal communication, including executive briefings.
Flexibility to work non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends and/or holidays.
Experience analyzing nation-state or cybercrime activity and applying adversary knowledge to complex enterprise investigations.
Demonstrated research, analytical automation, data-quality improvement, and technical mentoring that strengthen investigation capability.
Experience developing reviewed technical publications, presentations, or other knowledge-sharing material.
Experience leading globally distributed incident response workstreams with clear handovers, explicit ownership, and effective customer communication.
Relevant security certifications or equivalent practical expertise.

Förmåner

Substitute days off will be provided for public holiday work.
Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Färdigheter

CybersecurityIncident ResponseThreat AnalysisVulnerability ResearchAnomaly DetectionStatisticsMathematicsComputer ScienceComputer SecurityCloud EnvironmentsOn-Premises Environments

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för 3 dagar sedan

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Heltid

Arbetsform

Distans

Lön

119 800–234 700 US$ / år

Erfarenhetsnivå

Senior

Platser

United States

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