Microsoft Security Engineer - Automation & AI Security Lead

Found Talent; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension scheme

Annual bonus

Professional development investment

Job summary

Found Talent partners with an established technology organisation to strengthen its Cyber Security team, taking ownership of security tooling, controls, integrations and automation within a Microsoft and Azure environment.

You will engineer and maintain security controls across Defender, Sentinel, Entra and Purview, develop detection capabilities and drive continuous improvement while aligning with modern security practices and AI security considerations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Cyber Security Engineer with focus on Microsoft security tooling and Azure.
• Experience building detection capabilities and security automation.
• Ability to own security engineering initiatives and work independently.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and maintain security controls across Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, and Azure.
• Develop and improve security monitoring, telemetry, detection rules and alerts.
• Build security automation, integrations, and response workflows.
• Review existing tooling, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with tech teams to implement secure delivery processes.
• Contribute to AI security capabilities, including AI agent controls and automation.

Skills

Cyber Security Engineer

Microsoft Security Engineer

Security automation

Scripting

Azure security

AI security

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Purview

Azure

Job description

Found Talent partners with an established technology organisation to strengthen its Cyber Security team, taking ownership of security tooling, controls, integrations and automation within a Microsoft and Azure environment.

You will engineer and maintain security controls across Defender, Sentinel, Entra and Purview, develop detection capabilities and drive continuous improvement while aligning with modern security practices and AI security considerations.