Microsoft 365 Security Engineer

The Microsoft 365 Security Engineer plays a key role within our client’s security team to protect data, applications, endpoint devices, and users by providing subject matter expertise and operational skills within the Microsoft 365 and Azure suite of security products. The role is responsible for the design implementation, maintenance, testing, and enhancement of security and compliance practices, processes, and toolsets to continually improve our client’s security posture.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls with an Azure/M365 environment.
• Monitoring toolsets and systems to ensure our client’s security posture is maintained, and compliance obligations are met.
• Proactively remediating identified vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools.
• Support the security team by responding to security incidents and escalations.
• Design and architecture of information security controls and safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
• Participation in projects, implementations, and upgrades to provide expertise and guidance.
• Proactive review of advisory and implementation of Microsoft features.
• Remediate events from Microsoft 365 security and compliance dashboards.
• Ensure the environment security posture aligns to documented security procedures, guidelines, training material and best practices or architectural principles.
• Performance and progress in the following areas will be the priorities for this position.
• Provide guidance and support to the customers in determining and recommending security needs.
• Analysis of internal and external security events and reporting these findings to customers with recommendations as required.