Security and Fraud Analyst

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.

The Identity security analyst team, IDFIRE, is the premier identity cyber threat hunting and investigation team in the industry. IDFIRE is responsible to identify and understand all novel attacks against user and application authentication by researchers, criminals and nation state actors. We partner with data scientists and engineers to ensure the integrity and security of the services we operate (Entra & Microsoft Account), as well as the consumer and commercial identities we manage.  We are seeking a talented individual to join our world-class team of Security Researchers with a focus on fraud prevention and detection Your passion for protecting customers, comfort with ambiguity, and motivation to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure, will be highly valued. Your ability to efficiently sift through PB sized datasets via automation to extract key insights in a timely manner, will be critical in helping us continue to successfully execute against our mission. If you are motivated by the challenge of using your skills & knowledge to help protect Microsoft and the world from fraud and abuse - come join us!

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.

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Responsibilities

• Respond to security incidents (on-call) spanning fraud, abuse and compromise and identity-related operational issues to identify, isolate, remediate, and root cause
• Collaborate globally with engineering and partner teams such as MSTIC, MSRC and DCU in combatting fraud and abuse across both consumer and enterprise identities
• Investigate security incidents primarily related to fraud and abuse such as sign-up spikes, crypto-jacking and IRSF fraud
• Continually evaluate and suggest improvements to existing algorithms, and propose new ones, to detect and prevent systemic service vulnerabilities, identity compromise, fraud, and abuse
• Identify and analyze new data sources relating to novel fraud vectors and gain new insights for investigating fraud and abuse by finding patterns and outliers in data
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience working with extremely large data sets
• Experience of using tools, Scripting languages, and MapReduce solutions.
• Experience in Cybersecurity, and/or Fraud, anomaly detection, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, or data science
• OR BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent experience
  
  

Ability 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.

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