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Senior Security Incident Responder - CTJ - Poly
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe 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. 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. 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 may be your next opportunity! Cyber Defense Operations Government 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 exploitis being used to attack customers, the team works across Microsoft to rapidly defend the company and its customers against these threats.The opportunity for leadership that accompanies this Senior Security Incident Responder position is unique. You will manage and lead all parties involved in security incidents, make key risk decisions, and inform executive leadership in an overall effort to help protect customers, make our products and services more secure, and protect our brands. Excellent communications, interpersonal awareness, attention to detail, and the ability to foster cooperation and trust across teams are keys to success in this role. Robust program management skills for organizing information, breaking down complex problems, and working effectively in situations involving uncertainty will also help you excel in this position. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCore 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. | |