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We’ve amassed some of the best and brightest minds in cyber security who are passionate about protecting the digital world. Our team blends advanced technology alongside deep expertise to tackle the toughest cyber threats out there. Put simply, our mission is to stay ahead of the curve and create a safer digital landscape for our partners, and we think adding a Senior Consulting Engineer will up our cyber game.
This is a senior-level consulting engineering role for practitioners who are trusted to frame problems, shape decisions, and deliver durable technical outcomes. The role combines advisory consulting responsibilities with hands-on client delivery across Microsoft Purview, Defender for Office 365, collaboration security, data protection, and Microsoft 365 security governance.
You will work directly with client stakeholders to clarify objectives, surface constraints and tradeoffs, and recommend technically sound paths forward. In parallel, you will help define and refine internal delivery patterns, documentation standards, and operational guardrails that support safe, repeatable execution across client environments.
Role Overview.
This role sits at the intersection of collaboration security, information protection, compliance, and advisory delivery. You will operate as a technical authority for both clients and internal teams—helping define problem statements, evaluate options, and guide decisions that balance risk, usability, licensing realities, and operational sustainability.
The position carries a high degree of trust and autonomy. You will be expected to influence direction, challenge assumptions, and take responsibility for outcomes—not simply execute predefined tasks.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working in ambiguous environments, earning client trust through clarity of thought, technical credibility, and disciplined follow-through.
What you’ll be doing.
Client Advisory, Delivery & Decision Support
- Lead client discovery workshops and technical deep-dives; clarify objectives, identify constraints, surface tradeoffs, and translate ambiguity into executable decisions.
- Design and implement Microsoft Purview and collaboration security solutions consistent with client requirements and delivery standards.
- Deliver client-facing documentation that is clear, bounded, and decision-oriented, including problem statements, recommendations, rationale, expected outcomes, and operational implications.
- Present recommendations to client stakeholders using clear rationale, assumptions, risks, and expected outcomes; support informed decision-making rather than one-way delivery.
- Run technical working sessions and implementation calls; coordinate dependencies across client stakeholders and internal teams.
- Participate in governance cadences covering status, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps, and support change control practices for production-impacting modifications.
- Provide structured handoff and knowledge transfer, including runbooks, administrative guidance, and operational guardrails.
Purview, Defender for Office 365 & Collaboration Security Engineering
- Design, implement, and optimize Microsoft Purview capabilities such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, retention, records management, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery, and data lifecycle controls as appropriate to client need and licensing posture.
- Design and implement Defender for Office 365 protections including anti-phishing, anti-malware, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, campaign analysis, threat investigation, and policy tuning.
- Secure Microsoft 365 collaboration workloads including Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive with attention to both risk reduction and user experience.
- Assess existing tenant configurations, identify control gaps, and define pragmatic remediation plans that account for operational readiness and change impact.
- Support incident-informed hardening efforts by translating observed attack paths, risky behaviors, or governance failures into durable configuration improvements.
- Develop implementation standards, decision frameworks, and repeatable patterns that improve consistency across consulting engagements.
- Coordinate with identity, endpoint, and security operations stakeholders when control design or investigative workflows span multiple Microsoft security workloads.
Operational Quality, Governance & Delivery Framework Ownership
- Ensure delivery artifacts are traceable, including configuration decisions, change history, validation evidence, and client approvals where applicable.
- Build and maintain practical implementation guides, standards, and reusable artifacts that reduce variance across engagements.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve delivery safety, speed, and quality without sacrificing clarity, governance, or compliance posture.
- Support knowledge transfer and operational readiness by ensuring controls are supportable after implementation, not merely configured.
- Contribute to internal capability development through documentation, peer collaboration, and refinement of repeatable delivery methods.
What does it take to succeed in this role?
- 5+ years of experience delivering Microsoft security and compliance engineering work in consulting, professional services, or a similarly client-facing environment.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft 365 collaboration security capabilities in real client environments.
- Hands-on experience with Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online Protection, and the security posture of Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 compliance, information protection, and governance concepts including data classification, retention, DLP, and investigative workflows.
- Ability to assess existing environments, identify meaningful control gaps, and design remediation approaches that balance risk, usability, and operational reality.
- Ability to communicate clearly with client stakeholders, including presenting options, constraints, and tradeoffs without ambiguity.
- Operational discipline in documentation, change control, implementation planning, and evidence-minded delivery.
What are desirables?
- Experience with Microsoft Defender XDR and adjacent security workloads that inform investigation, response, and control tuning.
- Experience delivering in regulated environments such as financial services, healthcare, or public sector, and mapping technical controls to governance requirements.
- Experience with tenant-to-tenant migration, collaboration governance, or post-compromise hardening in Microsoft 365 environments.
- Experience building and maintaining reusable internal frameworks, standards, and accelerators rather than one-off implementations.
- Relevant certifications such as SC-400, SC-200, SC-300, MS-102, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
Work Arrangement
This is an onsite position based in the United States.
At this time, we are not hiring candidates who require visa sponsorship. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
How we work.
Our 3 values define how we operate internally as well as externally:
Vision - We embrace a forward-thinking mindset. Our team has a clear and inspiring picture of the future that helps drive our decisions towards creating and delivering world-class security services.
Velocity - We have a bias for action. We move swiftly and with purpose toward our goals and objectives and can easily adapt (and adjust) along the way.
Vigilance – We foster a culture of proactive awareness for our company and our customers, who trust us to be an extension of their team. We are always looking for areas where we can innovate, improve, fix, transform and revolutionize, which ensures the protection, safety and success of everyone at SilverSky.
Individuals that can act intelligently and confidently without an ego will thrive.
If this opportunity sounds interesting and you are passionate about redefining how the world thinks about cyber security, we want to hear from you. Apply now if you are interested in learning more about how we can change the rules of engagement, together.
About SilverSky
We are a global cyber security company with more than 20 years of professional experience in the industry. Our 300+ employees are on a mission to protect our customers with comprehensive, adaptive security services that maximize technology and automate responses, while empowering security analysts to hunt for threats, react and respond immediately. It’s the human enhanced response that differentiates SilverSky and allows us to create the most comprehensive managed detection and response (MxDR) solution in the industry by delivering on our Vision, Velocity, Vigilance philosophy. Follow us on X and LinkedIn to learn more.