Security Architect — Microsoft Security Platform

About the role

Avanade India’s Cyber Security practice is looking for a Security Architect with strong hands-on experience across the Microsoft security estate. This is a client-facing role for someone who can design a Sentinel and Defender architecture, work alongside a client SOC team on the detail, and present the design credibly to senior client stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Own the security architecture for client engagements — target-state design, Zero Trust design
• Design and implement Microsoft Sentinel: workspace and tenant design, ingestion strategy, log tiering and cost optimisation, detection engineering in KQL
• Support migrations from legacy SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight and similar) to Microsoft Sentinel — content and use-case migration
• Design across Microsoft Defender XDR — Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity
• Design cloud posture and workload security with Defender for Cloud — CSPM and CWPP, secure score improvement and regulatory compliance dashboards

What you need

• 12–14 yrs of experience
• SIEM
• Incident response
• Intune
• Network security
• Cloud security
• DLP
• Any graduate

Good to have

• ISO 27001
• CISSP
• CISM
• Splunk
• Data privacy
• Terraform