Senior Microsoft Security Consultant: Purview & Defender XDR Lead

LevelBlue, LLC.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LevelBlue, LLC is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security controls for clients, focusing on Purview, Defender XDR, and Entra ID. You will lead engagements, produce client-ready artifacts, run workshops, and collaborate with security, compliance, and IT teams to deliver measurable improvements in posture and risk reduction.

Experience in hybrid identity, information protection, DLP, and secure design patterns is valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Purview implementation in production or client tenant.
• Hands-on Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint + Identity/Office/Cloud Apps).
• Hands-on Entra ID security: CA, identity protection/risk patterns, privileged-access basics.
• Senior consulting or professional-services delivery: workshops, scope, and artifacts the client accepted.

Responsibilities

• Lead Purview engagements: current-state assessment, target design, phased rollout, and configuration of scoped capabilities (information protection, DLP, audit, and related controls).
• Implement and harden Microsoft Defender XDR and Entra ID security for the client’s operating model, not a demo tenant.
• Deliver Azure security posture assessments and guided hardening: landing-zone and control-plane hygiene, Defender for Cloud, prioritized roadmap.
• Where scoped, deliver assessment-level Active Directory / hybrid identity work: privilege, delegation, legacy protocol exposure, and a prioritized hardening roadmap.
• Produce client-ready artifacts: gap analyses, configuration baselines, implementation plans, and operational handover that can be executed.
• Run workshops with security, compliance, identity, and IT stakeholders; capture requirements, decisions, risks, and scope changes.
• Support pre-sales with effort estimates, technical scope, and solution shaping.

Skills

Purview implementation

Defender XDR

Entra ID security

Hybrid identity security

Education

SC-400; SC-300; SC-200

CISSP or CISM (desirable)

Job description

LevelBlue, LLC is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security controls for clients, focusing on Purview, Defender XDR, and Entra ID. You will lead engagements, produce client-ready artifacts, run workshops, and collaborate with security, compliance, and IT teams to deliver measurable improvements in posture and risk reduction.

Experience in hybrid identity, information protection, DLP, and secure design patterns is valued.