Remote Senior End-User Platform Engineer: M365 & Security

Dimensional Fund Advisors; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dimensional Fund Advisors is seeking an End User Platform Engineer to design and build the core services used by every employee, focusing on secure, automated solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive Microsoft 365 Security and Purview initiatives, advance hybrid identity with EntraID, and contribute to cost-optimized, well-engineered platforms benefiting the entire firm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience architecting, building, migrating, and supporting solutions involving Teams, SharePoint, other M365 services.
• Technical expert in Modern Identity solutions including hybrid, Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online, Intune, Azure AD), and Azure Cloud Security and Purview.
• 8+ years Systems Engineering experience encompassing requirements development, systems design and analysis, systems integration, and product verification and validation.
• 8+ years’ experience adopting cloud methodologies including implementing, supporting and evolving enterprise scale identity management, messaging and office productivity solutions.
• Deep knowledge of planning, design, deployment, configuration, optimization of DLP and Security.
• Strong understanding of client/server, networking and Internet technologies required to troubleshoot complex messaging systems end-to-end.
• Proficiency of related technologies such as PowerShell, Unified Messaging, MFA, Windows Server, mobile devices, eDiscovery and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience in customer-facing roles with demonstrated capability in clearly presenting thoughts and ideas to audiences of various sizes and technical knowledge levels.
• Significant hands-on experience in administering large M365 environments, including hybrid deployment architectures.
• Extensive experience in PowerShell and Scripting to support administration and automation of AAD and Office 365 Technologies.
• Practical knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, networking, mail routing, Exchange Server and Windows 10 Management.
• Proven ability to map security, privacy, and operational requirements to implementable engineering controls.
• Implementation-level experience with Microsoft 365 Protection solutions, including DLP, Mail Hygiene, labels, records management, threat management, eDiscovery, or GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design of services provided via cloud and on-prem systems.
• Lead implementations in Microsoft 365 Security & Purview with emphasis on automation, zero-configuration, and zero-trust.
• Assist modernizing Azure and Entra-ID architecture and configuration; Hybrid Identity management.
• Help mature the security posture of Microsoft 365 service; recommend best practices.
• Architect and optimize costs; develop system integrations outside of M365.
• Create automation that governs the technology; collaborate with platform teams.

Skills

Cloud security

Hybrid Identity

Scripting (PowerShell)

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent

Tools

PowerShell

Azure AD

Intune

Exchange Online

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Purview

M365 Security

Defender

Job description

Dimensional Fund Advisors is seeking an End User Platform Engineer to design and build the core services used by every employee, focusing on secure, automated solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive Microsoft 365 Security and Purview initiatives, advance hybrid identity with EntraID, and contribute to cost-optimized, well-engineered platforms benefiting the entire firm.