IT Manager: Workspace Security & Compliance

Inception42

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 300,000 - 420,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Inception42 is seeking an IT Manager to lead Workspace Security and Compliance, overseeing Intune, Defender for Endpoint, Zscaler, and Purview across Microsoft 365 services. You will drive security posture, patching, and incident response with vendors and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include defining operating model, governance, policy design, and building automated dashboards for compliance and risk metrics using Power BI and Graph APIs. This role is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in endpoint management, Microsoft 365 security, information protection, security operations, or technology compliance, including leadership responsibility.
Deep hands-on expertise with Intune, Defender for Endpoint, Defender XDR, Defender for Office 365, security baselines, and enterprise device compliance.
Strong experience administering Zscaler ZIA/ZPA and Client Connector, including device posture, user policies, secure access, threat protection, and troubleshooting.
Strong experience with Purview Information Protection and DLP across endpoints and Microsoft 365, including policy design, tuning, incidents, exceptions, and audit evidence.
Experience governing endpoint hardening, EDR, host firewall, encryption, vulnerability remediation, patching, monitoring, incident response, and compliance testing.
Experience with Power BI, KQL, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell, Log Analytics, SIEM, APIs, ITIL operations, vendors, licensing, contracts, and SLA escalation.

Responsibilities

Lead the team, defining its operating model, roadmap, standards, priorities, performance objectives, and professional development.
Translate business, cybersecurity, privacy, audit, and regulatory requirements into controls, baselines, policies, exceptions, and improvement plans.
Govern Intune enrollment, compliance, configuration, application protection, encryption, device control, local administrator, and Defender Firewall policies across supported endpoint platforms.
Own Defender for Endpoint onboarding, EDR, antivirus, attack surface reduction, web protection, vulnerability management, automated remediation, patch posture, threat intelligence, exceptions, and response.
Govern Defender XDR, Defender for Office 365, and Defender for Cloud Apps across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and sanctioned SaaS services, including phishing, malware, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, impersonation, quarantine, app governance, and investigation.
Lead implementation and administration of Zscaler ZIA, ZPA, Client Connector, device posture, secure web access, threat protection, cloud application controls, SSL inspection, and exceptions.