Microsoft
Cybersecurity Resilience Lead
$120K–$261K
United States · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 3+ years with a Master's degree or 4+ years with a Bachelor's degree in the specified experience areas; doctorate is also an eligible education path. Equivalent experience accepted. Preferred paths: doctorate plus 3+ years, Master's plus 6+ years, or Bachelor's plus 8+ years.
- Education
- Doctorate or Master's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field; or Bachelor's in those fields; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads customer-facing cybersecurity resilience engagements to assess readiness, strengthen incident response, and improve recovery capability before and after incidents.
What you'll do
- Set engagement objectives and lead resilience workstreams across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Design and deliver readiness assessments, tabletop exercises, cyber range simulations, playbooks, and threat modelling engagements.
- Translate findings into practical risk-reduction recommendations, align stakeholders, and document outcomes and lessons learned.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in a listed related field; or a Master's degree plus 3+ years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check and any additional checks needed for customer or government work.
Nice to have
- Experience in incident response, crisis management, resilience, security operations, or enterprise risk reduction; planning and delivering resilience exercises or programs.
- Customer-facing executive communication and experience applying frameworks such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, or ISO 27001.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001
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