Sr. Incident Commander

** Overview*
* The Cloud & AI 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 one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead Microsoft's response efforts to protect customers around the world? Are you excited about cybersecurity and ready to join a passionate security response team dedicated to protecting customers from emerging cybersecurity threats? If so, this role as a  
** Sr. Incident Commander
** may be your next opportunity!

Cyber Defense Operations Hub (Ops Hub) is looking for motivated and experienced security professionals to join our growing team to coordinate Microsoft's response to the most critical security issues facing our customers. When you read about hackers in the news; when the integrity of our products are at stake; or when a zero-day exploit is being used to attack customers, the Ops Hub team works across Microsoft to rapidly defend the company and its customers against these threats.

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.

** Responsibilities*
* + Perform cyber defense incident and/or vulnerability triage to determine scope, urgency, and potential risk impact.

+ Make high-stake decisions that enable expeditious remediation of risk to protect customers and Microsoft.

+ Track and document cyber defense incidents from initial escalation through final resolution.

+ Provide tactical security decisions and coordinate enterprise-wide cyber defenders to resolve incidents.

+ Send timely and clear executive updates explaining the risk to customers and Microsoft.

+ Advise and validate customer notifications and/or authoritative security guidance for customers.

+  Conduct incident analysis, produce reports, and briefs informing threat landscape trends and future investment areas to improve security.

+ Other:

+ Embody our culture and values.

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field

+ OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response

+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response

+ OR equivalent experience.

** Other Requirements:*
* Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

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** Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
** This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years…