Senior Security Delivery Expert – (Bilingual English/Japanese)

Location Type: On-site

 

Security 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 Defender Experts Team is looking for a Senior Security Delivery Expert who is bi-lingual in both English and Japanese, to join our detection and response team. No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 Defender will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. Our team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from our sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that Microsoft 365 Defender customers are well equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments. Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by Microsoft 365 Defender, across the attacker kill-chain, coupled with world-class detections.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about this work to help us harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.

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.

This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational Japanese, as you will be assigned to the Japanese-speaking customer market.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with senior leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new cloud detection and response innovations, as well as to ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products and services.
• Partner with your team of Microsoft Threat Experts providing deep research and analysis of threats impacting our customers.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and business leaders to innovate and deliver new security service offerings at a global scale.
• Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions/strategies across customer tools.
• Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the products that support Defender Experts service offerings.
• Provide technical leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required/minimum qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • OR 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

• 5+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing/Red Team.
• 4+ years of people/service delivery management experience, or relevant experience demonstrating customer interaction/support delivery.
• This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational Japanese, as you will be assigned to the Japanese-speaking customer market.

Other RequirementsAbility 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • OR 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.

• Experience leading a security function for a customer (i.e.: SOC manager, solution lead, Security engineer)
• Knowledge of operating system internals and attack techniques in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platforms
• Experience with data analysis and cyber threat investigations in Sentinel
• Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns Experienced with curation of Threat Intelligence and delivering customer briefings
• Proven ability to use data to ‘tell a story’
• Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning models
• Experience with system administration in a large enterprise environment including Windows and Linux servers and workstations, network administration, cloud administration
• Experience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networks
• Additional advanced technical degrees or cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC certifications

Security Research IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 3, 2025.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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