Cybercrime Investigator

Redmond, Washington, United States

The Microsoft Corporation Digital Crimes Unit has an immediate opening for a highly qualified and experienced cybercrime investigator to manage global investigations and high impact disruption operations. Microsoft’s DCU is a global team of attorneys, investigators, and analysts committed to leading the fight against cybercrime to protect our customers and promote global trust in Microsoft.   DCU is on the front line of Microsoft’s commitment to address cybercrimes such as Business Email Compromise, Tech Support Fraud, Malware, and Ransomware.

You will have the opportunity to work side by side with world class security engineers and investigators to collaborate on investigations of complex cybercrime and sophisticated online criminal networks. You will serve as one of DCU’s investigative experts on cybercrime detection, prevention, and mitigation across Microsoft products and services. You will collaborate closely with various teams across the company to help drive strategies to investigate and disrupt cybercrime to protect our customers.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Identify and analyze data sources to uncover cybercrime patterns and trends targeting our services and customers
• Develop investigative and mitigation processes to address new and existing threats
• Collaborate with security engineers and cross-company stakeholders to implement comprehensive investigative and enforcement strategies
• Conduct analysis on large, complex data sets to detect and investigate anomalies, develop actionable insights and strategies
• Work independently to detect, investigate, and understand new and emerging cybercrime attack vectors
• Partner with DCU attorneys to develop legal strategies to disrupt and impact online criminal networks

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Possess at least five years of either private sector or law enforcement investigative experience involving complex computer-related and internet facilitated crimes
• Ability to perform deep investigations on complex, sensitive matters
• Practical experience in Internet technologies, including network forensics, web development and if possible, data science
• Strong experience in threat intelligence analysis and reporting using common tools and techniques
• Experience using Microsoft cloud platform and services including Azure and O365
• Demonstrated experience in operations against threats to corporate and/or consumer information systems and services
• Excellent oral/written communication/presentation skills and the ability to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong technical problem-solving skills
• Ability to drive optimal decisions through data analysis with great attention to detail
• Self-motivated team player with a desire to make an impact

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People management

This position has no people management responsibility; however, he/she is expected to consult and advise the colleagues in matters regarding work-related duties for their function. Working closely with other teams is critical to the success of this candidate.

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.