Cybersecurity Lead Investigator

As a Lead Investigator, you will orchestrate evidence-driven investigations and technical incident response, align specialist workstreams and communicate clear findings, priorities and recommendations to customers. 

Technical Delivery  

This role will work as part of a collaborative team assisting our top customers with:   

• Contextualizing and prioritizing findings to put together a comprehensive account and briefing of the events that transpired during a security incident. 

• Pulling together multiple disparate events to build and communicate a cohesive timeline of activity. 

• Collaborating with stakeholders at every level of the business, including legal, compliance, cybersecurity, engineering, and executive functions. 

• Communicating key objectives and results with clarity and context. 

• Managing all the complexities of large-scale cybersecurity investigations for global multi-national organizations, serving as the primary point of contact. 

Research  

Security threats are constantly evolving, and so must the Microsoft Incident Response team. To that end, this role will involve:  

• Leading research and analysis of security threats, and sharing findings across the team. 

• Identifying, conducting, and supporting others in conducting research into critical security areas, such as current attacks, adversary tracking, and academic literature. 

• Analyzing complex issues using multiple data sources to develop insights and identify security problems and threats. Creating new solutions to mitigate security issues. 

• Recommending prioritization and validation methods for technical indicators, developing tools to automate analyses. 

• Leads efforts to clean, structure, and standardize data and data sources; leads data quality efforts to ensure timely and consistent access to data sources. 

Thought Leadership  

This role includes the ability to be at the forefront of Microsoft Security thought leadership by:  

• Developing written content for publication on Microsoft blog platforms. 

• Developing presentations for delivery at internal and external conferences. 

• Use the unique experiences of Microsoft Incident Response to create unique storytelling moments. 

• Lead from the front by ideating, mentoring, and supporting thought leadership efforts across the team. 

Operational Excellence   

 Must be maintained by:  

• Completing operational tasks and readiness with timeliness and accuracy.   

• Following Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).   

• Leading by example and guiding team members on operational tasks, readiness, and compliance.  

• Demonstrated hands-on experience leading large-scale, high-pressure cybersecurity incident response across on-premises and cloud environments, including setting investigation direction and guiding evidence-driven customer decisions. 

• Lead and manage high-profile incident response efforts for some of the world’s largest businesses. 

• Coordinate and lead all key stakeholders as the primary point of contact for major incidents. (This could include technical teams, executives, consultants, and partners) 

• Identify gaps early in the engagement process and request appropriate resources to fill those gaps. 

• Balance the need for rapid recovery with data collection and evidence preservation. 

• Direct activities to secure Enterprise-scale environments and assess potential data exfiltration or data collection. 

• Management of large-scale incidents in a follow-the-sun format working with fellow team members from across the globe. 

• Contextual application of MITRE Attack Framework and or OSI Model.  

• Delivery of complex and technical discussions effectively to customer representatives of varying levels. 

• Security Certifications in any of the following: OSCP, CISSP, SANS Certifications, SC Certifications from Microsoft.   

• Experience working with methods utilized for evidence collection, maintenance of chain of custody and associated documentation, evidence storage and analysis, and evidentiary reporting.   

• Eligibility to obtain or currently active government security clearance. 

• Experience analysing 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 while protecting sensitive information.