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Cybersecurity Resilience Lead

Microsoft· Security Research
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United States$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Cybersecurity Resilience Lead in Microsoft's Detection and Response Team (DART), focused on designing and delivering proactive resilience offerings to help customers anticipate, withstand, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Leads proactive resilience engagements, mentors colleagues, and collaborates with incident responders, threat hunters, and operations teams to improve readiness and durable response capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Set resilience engagement objectives, customer outcomes, priorities and evidence requirements; lead proactive workstreams across enterprise on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Design and deliver readiness assessments, tabletop exercises, cyber range simulations, playbook development and threat modelling engagements that improve incident response readiness.
  • Translate technical and operational findings into clear priorities, risk reduction actions and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Lead workshops that assess incident response plans, roles, escalation paths, communication models, evidence readiness and recovery dependencies; determine maturity and validation needs.
  • Lead customer workshops and stakeholder discussions aligning technical and operational teams, executives and core business functions around practical response improvements.
  • Partner with internal resources across incident response, threat hunting, infrastructure, reverse engineering, product and operations teams to improve service capabilities and offering quality.
  • Use customer feedback, field insights and lessons learned to improve resilience offerings, engagement methods and DART readiness practices.
  • Maintain engagement documentation covering objectives, decisions, risks, dependencies and next actions; support final reporting and lessons learned.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Resilience engagement leadershipThreat modellingTabletop and cyber range exercises
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