Cloud Security Senior Consultant – M365

This role focuses on providing consulting services for Microsoft 365 (M365) security, helping clients navigate and secure their M365 platform. Responsibilities include analysis, configuration, and deployment of M365 security technologies like Purview, Intune, Sentinel, and Defender, as well as designing security policies and providing technical support.

What you'd actually do

  1. Function as senior onshore engineer/consultant for the following Microsoft technologies: Purview, Intune, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra ID, Defender for Office, Defender for Endpoints and Servers, Defender for Vulnerabilities, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender XDR and SCCM
  2. Conduct cloud security analysis, recommendations and configurations of prospective clients’ Microsoft Entra ID, Office 365 (O365), Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online environments based on Deloitte’s Microsoft 365 Cyber Risk Framework. This can include Microsoft’s cloud solutions such as Entra, Purview, Defender, Intune, and Sentinel.
  3. Perform technical health checks for these M365 platforms/environments prior to broader deployments.
  4. Support proof of concept and production deployments of these cloud technologies.
  5. Assist clients with transitions to the Microsoft 365 security services such as solution setup and service configuration, focused on risk mitigation. Additional technologies include MFA, Conditional Access, Purview Compliance Manager, M365 Defender, Defender for O365, Defender for Cloud Apps (MDCA), Purview Information Protection (MPIP), Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

Skills

Required

  • Microsoft 365 security technologies (Purview, Intune, Sentinel, Defender, Entra ID, SCCM)
  • Cloud security analysis and configuration
  • Technical health checks for M365 platforms
  • Deployment of cloud technologies
  • M365 security services implementation
  • Design and development of cloud-specific security policies
  • Troubleshooting system level problems
  • Documentation of technical issues and resolutions
  • Experience in technical consulting
  • Experience with Microsoft 365

Nice to have

  • Security Copilot

What the JD emphasized

  • Microsoft 365
  • M365