Principal Security Research Manager

Microsoft; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a manager for its Threat Intelligence Center. This role involves leading a team of security researchers to automate threat intelligence generation and partner across the company to disrupt attacks. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cyber security research, excellent leadership skills, and a commitment to delivering measurable results. You will play a crucial role in protecting customers by advancing detection and protection capabilities.

Benefits

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a security research or security engineering role.
• Demonstrated success leading a security research team.
• Proven ability to relate technical research advances and insights to business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of security and threat-focused researchers.
• Harness team’s deep security research expertise to design detection capabilities.
• Enable your team to discover new threat actor activity.

Skills

Security research

Technical leadership

Cross group collaboration

Cyber security knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Overview

TheMicrosoft Threat IntelligenceCenter (MSTIC)have unique optics into end-to-end attacks and howdifferent stagesmanifest across our telemetry : we join the dots and show the art of the possible. The threat intelligence research teamresearch and developnew capabilityto detect attacks and threat actorsthrough novel correlation and analysis ideas.We are looking for a manager to lead a team of security focussed researchers toautomate the generation of threat intelligence and then achieve global impact by partnering across the company todisrupt attackswith it.

You are a research leader in the cyber security domain. You havea track recordof successful security research deliverythat you will use to direct your team totackle hard problems related to the discovery of threat actors targeting Microsoft and our customers. You are results-driven, with a focus on delivering value to start protecting customers early, and an iterative approach for incremental improvements thereafter. You enjoy finding creative ways toleveragenew technologiesand havea track recordin converting researchtomeasurablebusiness impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other quantitative field
• Extensive experience in a security research or security engineering role.
• Demonstrated success leading a security research team.
• Proven ability to relate technical research advances and insights to business impact.
• Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of attacker techniques and experience in tracking threat actors.
• Engineering experience in the cyber security domain.
• Experience in the analysis of cloud scale datasets.

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Responsibilities

• Lead a team of securityand threat-focused researchers.
• Harness your team’s deep security researchexpertiseto design and build new detectionand protectioncapabilities driven by threat intelligence and apply these to protect Microsoft andourcustomers.
• Enable your team to discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry.
• Partneracrossinternal and external teams toforge newrelationshipsthat advance defenders’ understanding of key threatsand harnessstate of the artprotection capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools.

Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect