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Controlled Technology: Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:
This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for the assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information.
Location: Cheltenham (100% in office)
Role Overview
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center provides unique insight into threats to protect Microsoft and our customers. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has unique optics into end-to-end cyber attacks: they connect the dots and show the art of the possible. Their analysis is underpinned by a range of talented people and disciplines. This team is key to leveraging the wide range of threat intelligence signals Microsoft has, enabling protection at a global scale.
You will have the opportunity to track sophisticated adversaries and apply technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques to enhance detections and provide actionable intelligence to partner teams. You will partner closely with internal security teams as well as Microsoft’s product security research and engineering teams to ensure intelligence is used to best effect to protect Microsoft and customers.
You will identify new data sources for threat hunting to fill gaps and increase visibility. Security is truly a team sport, and you will understand the value of partnerships and information sharing to further investigations and threat hunting.
What will you be doing as an apprentice?
- Providing threat intelligence to protect Microsoft and their customers.
- Developing novel ways to derive intelligence value.
- Accelerating analyst insights through cutting-edge malware and other analysis tooling run at cloud scale.
- Building systems and pipelines to ensure that Microsoft's intelligence leads to global real-world protection impact.
Skills you will learn
- Knowledge of the security/threat landscape.
- Threat intelligence investigation techniques.
- Network and host defence.
- Understanding of cyber espionage motivations, tools, and infrastructure.
- Attribution of activity to specific threat groups.
- Assessing connections between established threat groups, and communicating attribution assessments to internal stakeholders and customers in a timely manner.
- Finding new threat actor intrusions previously undetected by defence teams and tools.
- Deep understanding of endpoint, cloud, network, and identity-based attacks and datasets.
- Reverse engineering.
- Azure DevOps or similar cloud-based development experience.
- Development skills with C, C++, C#, and scripting languages (Python/PowerShell/JS).
- Cloud (services, serverless, SQL/NOSQL).
- Backend development.
- Architecture and design for scalable, distributed systems.
- Big data, data pipelines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements.
Benefits
Microsoft can't accomplish its mission to empower everyone on the planet to achieve more unless its employees can do their best work. Its perks, benefits, and everything in between are essential to its success. Some small, some large, all necessary. Microsoft believes in taking care of its employees. As part of the apprenticeship programme, you'll enjoy:
- Access to wellbeing programmes
- Generous time off
- Educational resources
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Discounts on products and services
- Giving programmes
Being a Microsoft Apprentice:
As a Microsoft Apprentice, you will have the opportunity to start your career early, earn while you learn, and gain valuable experience. Microsoft believe in providing real responsibility from the outset, with an employment contract for the full duration of your apprenticeship. You will be an integral part of the team, contributing to meaningful projects and initiatives to drive impact.
What to Expect:
Support and Guidance: You will be fully supported by an apprentice buddy, your manager, and fellow team members. Microsoft managers are trained and ready to support you throughout your apprenticeship programme.
Learning and Development: You will spend time away from your job training and growing your knowledge, which you will then apply to your day-to-day role. You will complete work-based assignments and participate in modules aligned with your job responsibilities.
Community and Inclusion: You will be part of a vibrant and inclusive apprentice community. You will have opportunities to give back through Microsoft's community programmes and Employee Resource Groups.
Career Growth: At Microsoft, they are committed to your growth and development. You will have access to industry-leading innovation and resources to help you succeed in your role and beyond.
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What’s important to Microsoft?
Microsoft strives to empower every person and organisation on the planet to achieve more. They do this by living their three values: Respect, Integrity, and Accountability. Microsoft channels these values into actions by creating innovation, championing the importance of diversity and inclusion, helping the UK tackle sustainability and inequality, and creating trustworthy computing.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, 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. Microsoft also considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable adjustments due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, you will be given multiple opportunities to notify the GetMyFirstJob team during your application, and they will be happy to discuss suitable arrangements with you directly.