Lead Platform Engineer - Azure, 365 & Identity Security

Showcify, Inc.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

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Job summary

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a Lead Engineer to own the design, security, and operation of the Microsoft 365 estate, Entra ID, and Azure platform. You will lead a small engineering group, set technical standards, and serve as the final technical escalation point to improve platform reliability, security, cost, and user experience.

Responsibilities include defining standards, automating administration, guiding migrations, and mentoring engineers while partnering with security, product

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise across the Microsoft 365 estate at enterprise scale, including Exchange Online, SharePoint and OneDrive, Teams and Intune.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, security and operation of the Microsoft 365 estate, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Intune, Defender and Purview.
• Own Entra ID as the organisation's identity platform, covering Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, hybrid identity, application integration and identity governance.
• Own Azure platform engineering and governance, including landing zones, subscription and policy design, monitoring, access control and cost management.
• Define the technical standards for the platform and ensure they are applied consistently across the estate.
• Design and maintain the security posture across the estate, including Zero Trust access, device compliance, data protection and retention, and provide the evidence required for audit and customer assurance.
• Automate platform administration and manage configuration as code, with appropriate version control and change management.
• Lead significant platform changes such as migrations, tenant work and new service introductions, from design through to stable operation.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for platform issues and ensure root causes are addressed permanently.
• Mentor engineers through design review, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Assess the Microsoft roadmap and advise on adoption, including the implications for cost, security and user experience.
• Within six months, assess the estate, agree risks and priorities, close priority identity and privileged-access gaps, publish technical standards, and begin automating repetitive administration.
• Within twelve months, demonstrate improved security, collaboration and identity reliability, auditable configuration as code, effective Azure cost and access governance, and stronger engineering capability.

Skills

Microsoft 365

Exchange Online

SharePoint

OneDrive

Teams

Intune

Entra ID

Conditional Access

Identity governance

PowerShell

Bicep

Terraform

Azure

RBAC

Cost governance

Tools

PowerShell

Bicep

Terraform

ARM

Job description

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a Lead Engineer to own the design, security, and operation of the Microsoft 365 estate, Entra ID, and Azure platform. You will lead a small engineering group, set technical standards, and serve as the final technical escalation point to improve platform reliability, security, cost, and user experience.

Responsibilities include defining standards, automating administration, guiding migrations, and mentoring engineers while partnering with security, product