Data Security Engineer - M365 & DLP (Hybrid)

Pretium Enterprise Services, LLC; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

PTO

11 holidays

Hybrid work arrangement

Year-end bonus

Job summary

Pretium Enterprise Services is seeking a Data Security Engineer to implement, operate and improve controls protecting sensitive information across Microsoft 365, SaaS apps and cloud data platforms. This hands-on role focuses on data‑discovery, DLP, information protection and exposure remediation in collaboration with data owners and security teams.

You will translate requirements into tested controls, validate coverage, and measure effectiveness while balancing protection with business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, or related field.
• Hands-on Microsoft 365 data-protection experience including Purview DLP and information-protection policies.
• Experience onboarding data sources for discovery and classification, configuring scans, validating findings.
• Experience taking DLP policies from requirements through testing, deployment and production support.
• Able to investigate policy behavior, tune detection accuracy and manage exceptions.
• Knowledge of encryption at rest/in transit and least-privilege data access.
• Ability to automate data-security checks with PowerShell, Python and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with version control, testing, error handling and secure handling of credentials.
• Strong ability to document, explain findings and coordinate remediation actions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain connectors and scans for prioritized data sources.
• Validate discovery coverage and classification accuracy; resolve gaps with platform owners.
• Implement and test sensitivity labels and information-protection policies.
• Remediate excessive access and external sharing with data owners; coordinate access changes with IAM teams.
• Develop scripts and API integrations for data-exposure analysis and control validation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Collaboration

PowerShell

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Security/related

Tools

Microsoft Purview DLP

Job description

Pretium Enterprise Services is seeking a Data Security Engineer to implement, operate and improve controls protecting sensitive information across Microsoft 365, SaaS apps and cloud data platforms. This hands-on role focuses on data‑discovery, DLP, information protection and exposure remediation in collaboration with data owners and security teams.

You will translate requirements into tested controls, validate coverage, and measure effectiveness while balancing protection with business