Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Microsoft Cloud & Zero Trust

Cybersecurity Jobs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

PTO

Holiday

401(k)

Job summary

Teleion Consulting is seeking a hands-on, client-facing Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to improve cloud security posture, strengthen incident response, and mature data security and zero trust across the Microsoft security ecosystem. This role requires deep production experience with Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, Intune, and Purview, plus the ability to lead incidents end-to-end.

You will author KQL rules, develop SOAR playbooks, and collaborate with MXDR or managed SOC

Qualifications

• 7+ years of security engineering or security operations experience in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Configure, tune, and operate the Microsoft security stack in production client environments.
• Lead incident response for real security events including account compromise, data exfiltration, insider risk, and BEC.
• Coordinate with MXDR or managed SOC providers to maintain escalation quality and case closure practices.
• Author and maintain KQL analytic rules and hunting queries in Microsoft Sentinel; map detections to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Develop SOAR playbooks to reduce false positives and automate analyst workflows.
• Design and deploy Microsoft Purview DLP policies across email, endpoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and cloud apps.
• Implement and maintain sensitivity labels, auto-labeling at scale, Insider Risk Management, and eDiscovery support.
• Harden Azure and multi-cloud environments by remediating Defender for Cloud findings and improving secure score.
• Advance zero trust maturity across identity, device, network, application, and data pillars using Conditional Access and PIM.
• Build PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API automations to scale security operations, reporting, and remediation.

Skills

KQL

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph API

Zero trust

Incident response

Microsoft Defender

Sentinel

Entra ID

Azure

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender XDR

Defender for Cloud

Entra ID

Intune

Microsoft Purview

SOAR

Job description

Teleion Consulting is seeking a hands-on, client-facing Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to improve cloud security posture, strengthen incident response, and mature data security and zero trust across the Microsoft security ecosystem. This role requires deep production experience with Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, Intune, and Purview, plus the ability to lead incidents end-to-end.

You will author KQL rules, develop SOAR playbooks, and collaborate with MXDR or managed SOC