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Cybersecurity Lead Investigator

Microsoft · AU · On-site

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Working with threat hunters, reverse engineers, infrastructure engineers and incident coordinators, you will bring together investigative findings, and direct response recommendations, balancing investigation with rapid recovery and containment. As a Lead Investigator, you will orchestrate evidence-driven investigations and technical incident response, align specialist workstreams and communicate clear findings, priorities and recommendations to customers.

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Working with threat hunters, reverse engineers, infrastructure engineers and incident coordinators, you will bring together investigative findings, and direct response recommendations, balancing investigation with rapid recovery and containment. As a Lead Investigator, you will orchestrate evidence-driven investigations and technical incident response, align specialist workstreams and communicate clear findings, priorities and recommendations to customers. Set investigation objectives, hypotheses, priorities and evidence requirements; lead hands-on analysis and specialist workstreams across enterprise on-premises and cloud environments. Contextualise and prioritise findings, correlate disparate evidence and build cohesive incident timelines. Establish what is known, what remains uncertain and what additional collection or analysis is needed. Assess adversary activity, compromise scope and potential data collection or exfiltration; validate key findings and explain the confidence and limitations of conclusions. Direct technical response planning and recommendations to secure enterprise environments, balancing containment and recovery urgency with evidence preservation and customer...

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