Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer Copilot & Automation

Applied Materials, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 122,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin is seeking a highly experienced Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to engineer, administer, automate, and continuously improve our enterprise Microsoft 365 environment.

This hands-on role spans across platform engineering, operations, governance, security, and user enablement to reduce manual effort and improve service reliability. You will design and deploy Copilot agents, build cloud flows with Power Automate, and integrate Microsoft 365 with internal systems,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience engineering and administering Microsoft 365 services in a large or complex enterprise environment.
• Broad administrative experience across the Microsoft 365 platform, with demonstrated depth in major workloads such as Copilot, Teams, SharePoint Online/OneDrive, Entra ID, and Microsoft Purview.
• Advanced PowerShell development experience, including building and maintaining production-quality scripts and modules.
• Hands-on experience developing and supporting Power Automate flows and other low-code or API-based automations.
• Demonstrated experience designing or developing Copilot agents, conversational solutions, or comparable AI-powered business solutions.
• Experience with Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder, SharePoint agents.
• Experience with Microsoft Graph API, including REST/SDKs, app registrations, permissions, OAuth, credential options, and least-privilege access.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 identity, licensing, security, compliance, and governance concepts.
• Experience delivering enterprise implementations, migrations, pilots, and feature rollouts.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across identity, permissions, policies, APIs, applications, clients, and cloud services.
• Experience creating technical documentation, operational procedures, and communications for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across engineering, security, operations, support, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and optimize Microsoft 365 services in a large enterprise environment.
• Provide engineering expertise across Microsoft 365 workloads, including Copilot, Teams, SharePoint Online/OneDrive, Entra ID, and Purview.
• Define and maintain platform standards, configuration baselines, governance controls, and administrative operating procedures.
• Evaluate changes, releases, and service updates; assess their impact and develop implementation plans.
• Lead and support pilots, migrations, feature rollouts, service enhancements, and adoption initiatives.
• Partner with security, identity, compliance, networking, endpoint engineering, architecture, and operations teams.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Copilot agents; develop governance frameworks and lifecycle processes for agents.

Skills

Microsoft 365

PowerShell

Power Automate

Copilot agents

Security governance

APIs

SharePoint Online

Tools

Microsoft Graph API

Azure Automation

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin is seeking a highly experienced Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to engineer, administer, automate, and continuously improve our enterprise Microsoft 365 environment.

This hands-on role spans across platform engineering, operations, governance, security, and user enablement to reduce manual effort and improve service reliability. You will design and deploy Copilot agents, build cloud flows with Power Automate, and integrate Microsoft 365 with internal systems,