Senior Microsoft Security Engineering Consultant

Trustwave; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LevelBlue is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security for clients, focusing on Purview, Defender XDR, and Entra ID. You will own scoped delivery, from requirements to client-ready artifacts, and work in mixed delivery and client teams with autonomy.

You will run workshops, provide SME guidance, and support recommendations with configuration evidence. This role requires hands-on configuration in live tenants and collaboration with 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 (at least 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.

Responsibilities

• Engagement Deliver 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.

Skills

Purview implementation

Defender XDR

Entra ID security

Hybrid identity

Client engagement

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure AD / Entra

Job description

LevelBlue is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Consultant to implement and uplift Microsoft security for clients, focusing on Purview, Defender XDR, and Entra ID. You will own scoped delivery, from requirements to client-ready artifacts, and work in mixed delivery and client teams with autonomy.

You will run workshops, provide SME guidance, and support recommendations with configuration evidence. This role requires hands-on configuration in live tenants and collaboration with security,