Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Security Incident responder 2 at Hyderabad, India Full Time

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead Microsoft’s response efforts to protect over a billion customers around the world? Are you excited about cybersecurity and ready to join a passionate security response team dedicated to protecting customers from emerging cybersecurity threats? If so, this role may be your next opportunity. Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is looking for motivated and experienced security professionals to join our growing team to coordinate Microsoft’s response to the most critical security issues facing our customers. When you read about hackers in the news; when the integrity of our products are at stake; or when a zero-day exploit is being used to attack customers, the MSRC incident response team works across Microsoft to rapidly defend Microsoft and its customers against these threats.

The opportunity for leadership that accompanies this individual contributor position is unique. You will regularly connect with the most senior leaders at Microsoft up to and including the CEO. You will manage and lead all parties involved in security incidents, make key risk decisions, and inform executive leadership in an overall effort to help protect customers, make our products and services more secure, and protect our brands. Excellent communications, strong interpersonal awareness, attention to detail, and the ability to foster cooperation and trust across teams are keys to success in this role. Strong program management skills for organizing information, breaking down complex problems, and working effectively in situations involving uncertainty are must-haves.

Responsibilities

• Performing cyber defense incident and/or vulnerability triage to determine scope, urgency, and potential risk impact.

• Make high-stake decisions that enable expeditious remediation of risk to protect customers and Microsoft.

• Track and document cyber defense incidents from initial escalation through final resolution.

• Provide tactical security decisions and coordinate enterprise-wide cyber defenders to resolve incidents.

• Send timely and clear executive updates explaining the risk to customers and Microsoft.

• Advise and validate customer notifications and/or authoritative security guidance for customers.

• Conduct incident analysis, produce reports, and briefs informing threat landscape trends and future investment areas to improve security.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and/or operations incident response.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in-writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection

• CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification.

• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure while maintaining a professional image and approach.

One or more of the following would be an advantage:

1. Experience with large scale and complex incidents of all types, including APT, DDoS, malicious insider, web and mobile applications, and data exfiltration.

2. Strong foundational knowledge in information technology, including cloud services, hardware, networking, architecture, protocols, file systems, and operating systems.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .