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Security Engineer
Toronto, ONSecurity Engineer (Microsoft)
Our client transform security efforts into adaptive risk management programs. Their high touch/high value services are delivered to customers across North America through Advisory, Offensive, Professional, and Managed Security Services. As a Security Engineer (Microsoft), you'll work as a part of the Risk Operations Centre (“ROC”) to design, build, and maintain infrastructure, with a focus on automation and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Our client transform security efforts into adaptive risk management programs. Their high touch/high value services are delivered to customers across North America through Advisory, Offensive, Professional, and Managed Security Services. As a Security Engineer (Microsoft), you'll work as a part of the Risk Operations Centre (“ROC”) to design, build, and maintain infrastructure, with a focus on automation and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain Microsoft Azure environments, including VMs, storage, networking, and cloud services.
- Oversee the configuration and administration of Active Directory (AD), including Group and Policy management, user provisioning, and identity management.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring the availability and reliability of Microsoft systems and services.
- Deploy and configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, and O365 to protect against security threats.
- Conduct regular security assessments of Azure environments and provide configuration recommendations to align with industry best practice hardening benchmarks
- Adopt a SecDevOps model to automate security processes and workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Manage system upgrade planning and execution.
- Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple data centres and cloud services.
- Keep up to date with updates, patching, and threat intelligence feeds.
- Perform test scenarios to validate alerting capabilities, such as malware detection, incident response, and monitoring.
- Provide Tier 2 and 3 support for IT security and system-related issues, including responding to user queries.
- Create and maintain knowledge bases related to system architecture and operational processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent work experience.
- Certifications (e.g., Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Certified Identity and Access Management Associate, CISSP) are highly desirable.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Microsoft systems administration, with expertise in managing and securing O365, Azure environments and Active Directory (AD)
- Experience deploying and configuring Microsoft Defender
- Experience with Bash, PowerShell, Python, and/or Go to support automation scripting, manage configurations, integrate with APIs, and parse data.
- Experience with integrating solutions in a multi-vendor environment, including SaaS environments
- Intimate knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging
- Experience with integrating and reporting on O365, Azure, and AWS log feeds
- Experience implementing, configuring, and maintaining SIEMs (especially Microsoft Sentinel) would be an asset
- Experience with enterprise-scale operations and maintenance environments
- Strong technical, analytic and problem-solving skills combined with the ability to provide quick resolution to problems.
- Excellent English written & verbal communication skills. This role will be interacting directly with users.
- Demonstrable success in thinking strategically and executing tactically, while providing consistent and high levels of customer satisfaction and retention in a fast-paced environment