Defender for Endpoint Security Engineer

MPower Plus; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MPower Plus is seeking an IT security engineer specializing in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to design, deploy, and optimize Defender for Endpoint across servers and endpoints. You will implement protection features, configure licensing (Defender for Servers), and manage integrations with Defender for Cloud, Intune and Azure Arc.

You will also tune alerts, reduce false positives, and drive automated investigations and remediation to reduce alert noise while maintaining strong security posture.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring and operating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) at scale.
• Familiarity with Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Intune, and Azure Arc integration.
• Ability to reduce false positives and tune alerts using suppression tools and behavioral blocking.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex MDE issues across Server Plan 2 and Endpoint.
• Troubleshoot integrations with Defender for Cloud, Intune, and Azure Arc.
• Investigate false positives/negatives and optimize suppression and blocking.
• Lead onboarding of Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android endpoints to MDE with proper licensing.
• Configure vulnerability management and OS configuration assessments per benchmarks.
• Collaborate with L1/L2 support and document resolutions in knowledge bases.

Job description

MPower Plus is seeking an IT security engineer specializing in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to design, deploy, and optimize Defender for Endpoint across servers and endpoints. You will implement protection features, configure licensing (Defender for Servers), and manage integrations with Defender for Cloud, Intune and Azure Arc.

You will also tune alerts, reduce false positives, and drive automated investigations and remediation to reduce alert noise while maintaining strong security posture.