Senior Microsoft Security Engineer: Purview & Defender XDR

LevelBlue; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LevelBlue, a leading cybersecurity provider, seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security for clients, focusing on Purview and related controls. You will own scoped delivery, guidance, and client-ready artifacts, working with autonomy in mixed delivery teams.

Experience with Purview in live tenants is required. You will run workshops, provide SME guidance, and shape delivery assets, advancing readiness for client environments and security

Qualifications

• Senior consulting or professional-services delivery: workshops, scope, and artifacts the client accepted.
• Hands-on Microsoft Purview implementation in a production or client tenant; you have designed and configured controls.
• Hands-on Microsoft Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint plus one of Identity, Office, or Cloud Apps).
• Hands-on Entra ID security: Conditional Access, identity protection / risk patterns, and privileged-access basics as implemented in the tenant.
• Ability to assess requirements and recommend a target configuration with a practical how-to, including what to phase and what not to turn on.

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

Senior consulting

Workshop delivery

Requirements gathering

Solution design

Pre-sales support

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Defender XDR

Entra ID / Azure AD

Conditional Access

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

LevelBlue, a leading cybersecurity provider, seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security for clients, focusing on Purview and related controls. You will own scoped delivery, guidance, and client-ready artifacts, working with autonomy in mixed delivery teams.

Experience with Purview in live tenants is required. You will run workshops, provide SME guidance, and shape delivery assets, advancing readiness for client environments and security