Defender for Endpoint Engineer - Security
A Leading Financial Services business are looking to hire a Microsoft Defender Engineer - ideally with experience across build and implementations.
- £650 - £800 per day (Inside IR35/Umbrella or PAYE only)
- The role is an initial 12 month contract with scope to roll into a couple of years
- The role is a Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office, 2 from home)
- Based in London
Microsoft Defender Engineer/Consultant Description
The Microsoft Defender Engineer/Consultant will contribute to technical design, deployment, consultancy, changes and incidents management in customer's environment.
Duties and Responsibilities
The successful Security Engineer will be responsible for the following:
- Create architectures (High Level Design and Low Level Design).
- Manage the deployment, configuration, ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting Defender solutions.
- Assess the health of assets directly and via the Defender portal
- Collaborate with IT teams to integrate security solutions across the organization.
- Provide support and knowledge transfer to staff on Defender best practices and tools.
- Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation related to Defender implementations.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats and trends, and recommend improvements to security architecture.
- Participate in security audits and compliance assessments.
- Support creation of business as usual processes.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- 3+ years of experience in IT security, specifically in designing and implementing endpoint protection and identity security solutions.
- Demonstrable experience in end-to-end project life cycle of both Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity. Design, Test, Implement and monitor for continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of security frameworks and regulations (NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.).
- Willingness to provide value at all levels within a project from actively troubleshooting an endpoint, to creating powershell scripts to designing solutions
- Team-oriented and collaborative mindset.
- Precise attention to detail and accuracy.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CompTIA Security+, etc.).
- Experience with SIEM tools and incident response processes.
- Familiarity with scripting languages (PowerShell, Python) for automation.
- Endpoint - moving to Defender for Endpoint
- Looking at end user devices.
- Project will include a review of assets before even get there.
- Deploy from beginning, design, configure, test and rollout
Role:
- Defender for Endpoint Engineer
- Very senior, experienced engineer
- Lead design, roll sleeves up, do configuration, figure out why
- Rollout and troubleshooting
Design vs Engineer - will start off with a lot more design and architecture, then will need to do more of the engineer work. Will move throughout the project.
- Size of the estate - absolutely makes a difference - if rolled out to 300 - won't be enough.
- Scale here is talking 1000's of assets.
- Needs to be at volume and working across complex estate
- Modern and old school tooling - need to be able to look at both.
- Defender deployed in multiple different ways - need experienced individual
- Azure Identity Protection - AIP - Security Professional
- 2000 Assets plus (1000 laptops, desktops, servers)
- Typically what seems to work - Security Engineer, Previously Microsoft Windows Engineer
