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 Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is a cyber threat actor focused intelligence team that discovers, tracks and disrupts threats to protect Microsoft and its customers and partners.

MSTIC’s vision is to create a safer world through the creation and dissemination of accurate, timely, and actionable cyber threat actor intelligence.

MSTIC is seeking a skilled ‘Cyber Threat Intelligence Liaison’ to join our team to build productive partnerships with European organizations that share our vision. The ideal candidate will deliver productive partnerships that accelerate both parties’ ability to discover and counter serious cyber threats. They will cement Microsoft’s reputation as an intelligence partner with unique insight into cyber threats.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build enduring relationships with European government and industry partners that deliver productive exchanges of cyber threat intelligence.

• Enhance Microsoft reputation as cyber threat intelligence producer by representing MSTIC in European cybersecurity conferences, workshops, and policy discussions.

• Facilitate great practitioner-level collaboration with partner organizations that result in mutual benefit for all parties.

• Democratize access to partnerships across the threat intelligence team by building a knowledge base of partner strengths and interests.

• Support Microsoft’s policy team by providing cyber threat intelligence context to policy issues.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in partnership-building cybersecurity, intelligence, international relations, diplomatic, or similar role.

• Strong understanding of nation-state and sophisticated criminal cyber threats.

• Good understanding of cyber-attack terminology and preferably some technical experience in working cyber investigations.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global team environment.

• Fluent in English; proficiency in additional languages is a plus.

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.

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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