Microsoft Defender Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a skilled Microsoft Defender Engineer with hands-on experience in deploying, managing, and optimizing the Microsoft Defender security suite. The ideal candidate will be responsible for strengthening endpoint security, identity protection, cloud application security, and incident response across enterprise environments.

What you'll do

• Deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Defender security solutions across enterprise environments
• Administer and maintain Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft Defender XDR
• Monitor security alerts, investigate incidents, and perform threat hunting activities
• Analyze security events and respond to malware, ransomware, phishing, and advanced cyber threats
• Configure attack surface reduction (ASR) rules, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and antivirus policies

What you need

• 4–8 yrs of experience
• Incident response
• EDR
• Office 365
• SIEM
• Vulnerability assessment
• Azure
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Intune
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• PowerShell