Senior Security Engineer, Microsoft Stack

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +30 more states – Remote

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💵 $106.7k - $170.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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SNHU Careers is the careers and hiring portal for Southern New Hampshire University, a nonprofit institution focused on transforming learners’ lives. The site promotes the university’s mission-driven culture, inclusive values, employee benefits (including remote work options and paid time off), and a wide range of job categories from academics and teaching to business operations, student support, marketing, and campus roles. It encourages talent community sign-ups and highlights professional development, diversity and equity initiatives, and flexible work arrangements.

📋 Description

• Implement, operate, and continuously improve SNHU's Microsoft security platforms • Serve as the primary technical owner of Microsoft Defender XDR • Contribute Microsoft platform expertise to Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra ID, Intune, and Purview • Engineer integrated security controls across Defender XDR, Entra ID Protection, App Governance, Intune, and Purview • Reduce identity, endpoint, application, cloud, and data risk through secure configuration, attack-surface reduction, automated response, and continuous validation • Engineer identity security controls including Conditional Access, Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management, access reviews, workload identities, and hybrid identity protections • Test policy changes in a non-production tenant before production deployment • Build security automation using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, KQL, and REST APIs • Deploy repeatable configurations as code through Bicep or Terraform in CI/CD pipelines • Integrate Microsoft security telemetry with SIEM, SOAR, IT service management, and threat intelligence platforms • Troubleshoot cross-platform issues through permanent resolution • Serve as the security engineering point of contact with Microsoft and assess roadmap changes, feature releases, and deprecations • Support partner-owned Microsoft platforms through configuration expertise, review, and testing • Document implementations with diagrams, configuration standards, runbooks, test results, and as-built records • Provide control evidence for audits, control testing, and FERPA, GLBA Safeguards Rule, and PCI DSS compliance activities • Mentor engineers through configuration review, pair troubleshooting, and design feedback • Escalate material control deficiencies to Security Architecture and leadership • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud engineering, identity, endpoint management, or infrastructure engineering • 3+ years with recent Microsoft security platforms in an enterprise environment • Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security, or related discipline, or equivalent years of experience acceptable • Microsoft certifications: SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500, or SC-100 • Industry certifications: CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or equivalent • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Intune, or Microsoft Azure • Infrastructure as code using Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform within a CI/CD pipeline • Python or a second automation or scripting language • Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and modern authentication protocols including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and Kerberos • Microsoft 365 and Azure security configuration and governance controls • Windows, Active Directory, networking fundamentals, certificates, and encryption • Logging and telemetry pipelines, detection engineering, and incident response practice • Zero Trust, least privilege, defense in depth, and risk-based decision-making • PowerShell at a production scripting level • Kusto Query Language for detection authoring and investigation • Microsoft Graph and REST API integration • Version control and change management discipline, including Git-based workflows • Clear technical writing for runbooks, standards, and control evidence • Must reside in and work from one of the approved states

🏖️ Benefits

• High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance • Low to no-cost dental and vision plans • 5 weeks of paid time off • Almost a dozen paid holidays • Employer-funded retirement • Free tuition program • Parental leave • Mental health and wellbeing resources • Remote work from an approved state • Reliable internet connection and dedicated, properly equipped workspace for remote employees

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