Microsoft Security Engineer- Engagement Lead- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

General Description:

GuidePoint Security is seeking an experienced Microsoft Security Engineer - Engagement Lead to oversee client relationships and drive successful delivery of cybersecurity consulting engagements. In this role, you will serve as the primary point of contact for enterprise clients, ensuring projects are executed with precision, transparency, and measurable impact. The Engagement Lead will balance strategic oversight with hands on management, guiding cross functional teams, aligning solutions to client objectives and fostering long term partnerships.

This position is ideal for a professional who thrives in a boutique consulting environment, where agility, personalized service, and trusted advisory are central to delivering differentiated value.

About the Cloud Practice:

The Cloud Practice is responsible for providing advisory services as well as secure implementations specific to security tooling with the intent of protecting the customers' identities, endpoints, data, applications, and cloud infrastructure by designing, deploying, and operationalizing Cloud Solution Providers native security solutions. We focus specifically on ensuring cloud security, data security, identity and access management, as well as threat protection has been implemented following best practices across the organization.

Our team of Microsoft specialists focus on deploying Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions to protect identities, devices, data, apps, and infrastructure. We partner with other Cloud Solution Provider teams as well as internal resources to ensure the overall goals of the clients are achieved and align with industry standards and best practices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Technical Oversight and Delivery: Oversee and coach technical delivery teams, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with client objectives.
• Client Management: Build and maintain executive-level relationships, translating technical outcomes into business value.
• Escalation Management: Experienced in managing and resolving escalations, balancing client satisfaction with project scope and delivery realities.
• Account Executive Partnership: Collaborate with Account Executives to identify growth opportunities, shape proposals, and support pre-sales activities.
• Leadership and Communication: Utilize strong written and verbal communication skills when presenting to executives, leading workshops, and mentoring technical teams.
• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of practice services.
• Pre-Sales and Delivery Support: Contribute to the creation of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Proposal (RFPs), and pre-sales solution design in partnership with Account Executives and delivery teams.
• Modern Workplace Strategy: Define and implement strategies for secure, efficient, and user-friendly adoption of services across enterprise environments.
• Security and Compliance: Establish and enforce enterprise-wide security and compliance frameworks, including data protection, insider risk management, and data loss prevention (DLP).
• Zero Trust Enablement: Apply Zero Trust principles across cloud and hybrid environments, leveraging identity, access, and threat protection controls such as MFA, conditional access, and continuous verification.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure teams to align cloud security architectures with regulatory, operational, and business requirements.
• Integration Expertise: Design and implement integrations between cloud platforms, SaaS applications, security tools, and endpoint management solutions to ensure cohesive protection.
• Automation and Optimization: Develop automation scripts, workflows, and orchestration processes to streamline administration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide leadership, mentoring, and oversight to engineers and delivery teams, fostering knowledge transfer and consistent execution across regions.
• Resiliency and Monitoring: Establish high-availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring strategies to ensure resilient and continuously protected cloud services.
• Governance and Adoption: Define governance models, lifecycle policies, and adoption frameworks to maximize business value and ensure sustainable security practices.
• Thought Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert for cloud security initiatives, migrations, and transformations, contributing to client roadmaps, executive briefings, and industry discussions.

Required Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree and:
  • 2 years of experience with Azure security suite capabilities, such as Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, WAF, APIM, Secure Landing Zones, Azure Policy, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and related governance tools.
  • 2 years of experience with Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security integration, including Conditional Access, MFA, Identity Governance, and cross-platform compliance alignment.
• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale Azure deployments, migrations, and modernization projects across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS worklo.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services, including Entra ID, Virtual Networks, Storage, Compute, App Services, and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Strong understanding of Azure security and compliance capabilities, such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Key Vault, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust principles.
• Hands-on experience with automation and scripting, including PowerShell, KQL, ARM/Bicep, Terraform, and Microsoft Graph API.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, including multi-cloud and hybrid architectures, virtualization, containers, infrastructure security, data security, encryption, management plane, business continuity, and identity entitlement/access management.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender suite and Microsoft Sentinel, with experience designing and operationalizing SIEM/SOAR solutions for Azure environments.
• Experience with lifecycle management of Azure resources, including provisioning, governance, cost optimization, and decommissioning.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

Preferred Experience and Education:

• Microsoft Certified: Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, Security Administrator Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 6+ years focused on Microsoft Azure architecture, administration, and security.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work
• Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day
• Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day