Senior Insider Threat Analyst

Microsoft
United States, Texas, Irving
7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map)
May 10, 2025
OverviewSecurity 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 is seeking a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our Insider Threat team, a critical function in safeguarding our company and customers from evolving security threats. Security remains one of our highest priorities in an increasingly complex threat landscape, and this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to that mission.In this position, you will collaborate closely with the National Security Team (NST) and other key stakeholders across legal, security, and investigative teams to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate insider risks. Your expertise will play a pivotal role in protecting Microsoft's operations, ensuring compliance, and strengthening our security posture.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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. ResponsibilitiesIdentification and Detection of Control FailuresDesigns solutions to address identified control issues (e.g., network, identity, high security), taking intended and unintended consequences into account. Operationalizes and scales a program and solution appropriately. Identifies high priority opportunities and makes data-driven recommendations for efficiencies to improve security posture (e.g., streamline processes, automate). Assists team with technical acumen as needed.AutomationRecommends automation to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of security operations. Supports development and implementation of new automation. Provides automation and proactively proposes where investment will yield greatest efficiencies. Develops and implements solutions. Improves solutions over time.Translate Security Policy and Standards into Effective ControlsContributes to security policy and standards. Maintains accurate and comprehensive security policy and standards. Designs mitigation strategies to addresses identified gaps in policy. Educates others (e.g., business partners, peers, industry) on security policy. Recognizes patterns and trends and recommends solutions for improvement. Recommends refinement of security policy and standards.CollaborationCollaborates with internal and external parties to ensure service level agreement (SLAs) are reached when addressing threats. Supports development of requirements for solutions. Defines new requirements and feature sets.Customer/Partner ExperienceDrives improvements in customer and partner experience by sharing best practices and interacting with customers. Ensures proper resources are engaged to address issue and prevent recurrence. Designs for the customer experience. Develops and implements metrics for customer satisfaction. Ensures alignment to customer and partner experience standards. Gathers future requirements directly from customers. Designs to maximize customer experience. Creates partnership and advocacy with customers. Educates business partners to influence behavior to make different decisions that enhance security posture. Defines customer and partner requirements, anticipates needs, and measures quality of experience.Data-Driven AnalysisRecommends mitigation strategies based on trends identified in the analysis of key metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other data sources (e.g., bugs, unhealthy data pipeline). Defines and implements metrics to address gaps in measurement. Influences others to take action in response to findings, prioritized by severity.Security Incident ResponseIndependently analyzes prioritized attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security. Recommends next steps and escalations to resolve. Develops response plans for new or nuanced issues. Devises mitigation steps. Provides guidance to limit exposure. Apprises leadership of status. Manages stakeholder communication appropriately. Conducts postmortem analysis. Helps others understand triage, analysis, and prioritization.Monitoring and DetectionBuilds new detection capabilities. Researches new attacks and identifies trends to reduce noise in detections. Drives prioritization and resources required to address potential or actual intrusions identified as a result of monitoring activities. Drives automation of detection and response.Red/Purple Team OperationsUnderstands how weaponized code can be used in operations. Determines how tactical tools can be adopted to larger scale automation. Engages security assurance organizations to identify new Tools Tactics Procedures (TTPs) and leverages in breaches operations.Threat Intelligence and AnalysisRecommends potential detections and signatures for defense capabilities based on analysis and understanding of threat trends in the industry.Other Embody our culture and values