This job is positioned in Microsoft’s brand-new Tel Aviv Cloud Security Development Center! 

Our group builds products that are used by dozens of millions of users across the globe, protecting organizations’ identities and cloud assets from advanced threats.  

Our security research spans products such as Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Sentinel – all apply sophisticated algorithms, collect and fuse data from many sources, and process immense amounts of traffic and logs in real time. 

We are an agile team of very strong engineers, researchers and PMs, with a "move-fast" attitude, passion for solving tough problems, building things the right way and delighting our customers. 

We are looking for a security researcher to join our team, to help Microsoft’s customers’ networks and identities, both cloud and on-premise, become more protected from the world’s most sophisticated attackers.  

Responsibilities

You will be leading joint security-research projects across multiple groups in Microsoft and outside, identify and research new attack vectors, map attack kill chains, come up with innovative methods for detection, and serve a subject matter expert for product managers, engineers and fellow researchers. 

You will take part in a strategic roadmap creation, as well as hands on security research, including: 

• Analyzing different protocols to identify network behavior – TCP, SSL, Kerberos, OAuth2, HTTP, DNS and many more 
• Analyzing logs and behavioral of user activities on cloud infrastructures and cloud apps 
• Identify and research new methods for attacks – on-premises over cloud infrastructure and apps 
• Optimizing existing detections to reduce false positives and increase the quality of alerts 
• Researching online for the latest security threats 

• Collaboration with other security groups to identify the latest threats and attack vectors 
• Writing blogs, publications and presenting in global cyber security conferences 
• Write the detections code yourself (when relevant)   

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a network/cloud security researcher - MUST

• Hands-on experience in software development ( C, C++, C#, Python ) - MUST
• Proven track record of innovative cyber security research 
• Experience with data/security analysis – advantage 
• Team player, confident, independent and enthusiastic! 
• Strong verbal and presentation skills 

• Passion for conducting “practical” research – delivering constant value to our customers 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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