Security Researcher

About the role

The Microsoft Defender Experts (DEX) team combines deep security expertise with Microsoft security products, telemetry, threat intelligence, and partnerships across the company to help customers detect, investigate, understand, and respond to advanced threats. Within DEX Operations, Threat Researchers operate where customer defense, threat hunting, incident investigation, and detection innovation meet.

What you'll do

• Conduct proactive threat hunts across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and other relevant security telemetry to identify indicators of compromise and previously unseen…
• Investigate security alerts and suspicious activity, perform root-cause analysis, and develop a clear understanding of attack scope, sequence, impact
• Analyze and correlate large, complex datasets to produce timely , context-rich findings and actionable insights for customers and internal partners
• Apply knowledge of attacker tradecraft, identity systems, authentication and authorization protocols, operating systems
• Develop and improve high-fidelity hunting queries, detection logic, custom alerts, investigation methods, and response guidance

What you need

• 3–6 years in cybersecurity
• Incident response
• SIEM
• Penetration testing
• EDR
• Python
• SQL
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• PowerShell
• Root cause analysis