Senior Cloud Identity & M365 Security Engineer (Hybrid)

Kforce Technology Staffing; Arlington (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead Microsoft 365/Entra Identity, security, and collaboration services. You will manage Exchange Online, Entra ID, and related workloads, shaping identity and access across the organization.

You will collaborate with security, networking, and development teams, implement automation and IaC, and participate in CI/CD using Azure DevOps and GitHub in a hybrid, Arlington, VA environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role or equivalent knowledge and abilities.
• Relevant education or training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and administer Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Copilot, and related security/compliance features.
• Administer and harden Entra ID (Azure AD), including conditional access, identity protection, app registrations, and RBAC.
• Own Exchange Online configuration: mail flow, transport rules, connectors, policies, hybrid connectivity, and advanced troubleshooting of mail delivery issues.
• Investigate incidents, identify patterns, and develop detection queries and reports using Microsoft 365 Defender, Purview, and Log Analytics.
• Collaborate with security and networking teams to implement security baselines, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, and auditing across the M365 environment.
• Develop and maintain automation, scripts, and integrations to streamline administration, reporting, and provisioning.
• Contribute to CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub) for Microsoft 365 configuration and related workloads.
• Work with containerized and cloud workloads (e.g., Kubernetes) integrating with M365/Entra for identity, security, or app access.
• Lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis for M365 and identity-related outages and security events.

Education

Relevant education or training

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead Microsoft 365/Entra Identity, security, and collaboration services. You will manage Exchange Online, Entra ID, and related workloads, shaping identity and access across the organization.

You will collaborate with security, networking, and development teams, implement automation and IaC, and participate in CI/CD using Azure DevOps and GitHub in a hybrid, Arlington, VA environment.