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Cyber:

Deloitte Cyber understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful insights and help clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape, leveraging cutting-edge design and technology as we partner with clients to transform their security posture.

Position Summary

Level: Senior Solution Delivery Lead

Work you'll do:

As a Senior Solution Delivery Lead/ Microsoft 365 Security Consultant, you will be at the front lines with our clients, supporting their Cyber needs and guiding them through the journey of securing their Microsoft 365 (M365) platform. You will play a key role in helping clients transform their security environment, including migrating from third-party security tools to the Microsoft security stack.

Work You'll Do

• Serve as a senior engineer/consultant for Microsoft security technologies: Purview, Intune, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra ID, SCCM, and the Defender suite (Defender for Office, Endpoints, Servers, Vulnerabilities, Cloud Apps, XDR).
• Lead transformation initiatives for clients transitioning from third-party security tools to the Microsoft security stack, ensuring seamless migration, integration, and optimization of security controls and processes.
• Conduct cloud security analysis, recommendations, and configurations for clients' Microsoft Entra ID, Office 365 (O365), Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online environments, based on Deloitte's Microsoft 365 Cyber Risk Framework and industry standards (NIST, CIS, CISA, PCI DSS).
• Perform technical health checks and readiness evaluations for M365 platforms/environments prior to broader deployments.
• Lead technical response to critical (P1) and high-severity (P2) incidents impacting M365 core services, including Teams, Entra ID, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Intune, and Defender suite.
• Swiftly diagnose service disruptions, security breaches, access failures (e.g., widespread MFA outages), and policy misconfigurations.
• Utilize break-glass accounts and emergency procedures to restore access during global outages or lockouts.
• Support proof-of-concept and production deployments of Microsoft cloud security technologies, ensuring robust protection and compliance.
• Advise clients through transitions to Microsoft 365 security services, overseeing solution setup, service configuration, and risk mitigation—including hands-on experience with MFA, Conditional Access, Purview Compliance Manager, Information Protection (MPIP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and M365 Defender.
• Assist clients with configuration and delivery of cloud security and compliance reports, translating technical findings into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Implement and advocate for industry-leading cyber risk management practices, including policy development, incident response, data protection (classification/labeling, DLP, encryption), access control, auditing, monitoring, security incident and event management, user and administrator account management, SSO, conditional access controls, and password/key management.
• Troubleshoot system-level problems in multi-vendor, multi-protocol network environments, ensuring seamless integration and operation.
• Document platform technical issues, analysis, client communication, and resolution as part of ongoing cyber risk mitigation steps.
• Execute on M365 security engagements during all phases of the lifecycle—Discover, Assess, Design, Deploy/Test, Hypercare/Handover—ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Provide internal technical training to Advisory personnel and contribute to thought leadership, including Point-of-Views (PoVs) on M365 security challenges and emerging best practices.
• Act as a subject matter expert on cloud cyber risk for Microsoft Purview, Intune, Defender, Sentinel, and related capabilities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Microsoft licensing models (E3, E5, EMS E3, EMS E5) to ensure security solutions align with client entitlements and maximize value.
• Stay current on emerging Microsoft technologies, including Security Copilot, Defender for Vulnerabilities, Defender for Identity, and Defender XDR.

The Team

Enterprise Security teams embed security in all aspects of digital transformation by securing a client's "technical backbone" while also enabling secure digital transformation. Services include security architecture, secure development and deployment, end-to-end cyber cloud capabilities, application security, and security for emerging technologies and connected products. Examples of work include Secure by Design, Cloud Security Orchestration & Automation, Core Infrastructure Security, and Secure Software Enablement. Deloitte Cyber team helps complex organizations more confidently pursue their growth, innovation and performance agendas through proactive management of the associated cyber risks. Our professionals provide advisory and implementation services that integrate risk, regulatory, and technology skills to help clients transform their legacy programs into proactive Secure.Vigilant.Resilient.TM cyber programs. Cloud Infrastructure supports organizations through the complete cycle of migrating business processes to the cloud, with capabilities and solutions focused on development, transformation, and resilience of cloud security.

Qualifications

Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• 7+ years of experience in technical consulting, client problem solving, architecting, and designing solutions in a consulting role.
• 7+ years of hands-on technical experience implementing and operating Microsoft 365 enterprise-level messaging, collaboration, and security services which includes:
• Entra ID (Azure AD), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, Microsoft Purview, Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online protection, Defender for Endpoints/Servers, Intune, SCCM, MEM, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Defender for Identify, Defender for Vulnerability Management, Defender for XDR, Security Copilot, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Defender for Cloud Apps and Power Platform.
• Ideally, experience with:
• Microsoft Security Copilot
• Defender for Vulnerabilities
• Defender for Identity
• Defender XDR
• SCCM
• Power Platform

Good to Have Skills/Certifications:

• Microsoft Certifications: SC-900, SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, SC-400
• Cyber Certifications: CCSP, CCSK, CISSP, CCNP, CCNA

Education:

• Btech/BA/BS/Mtech Degree preferred, ideally in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security, Engineering, or Information Technology.

Location:

• Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune/Chennai/Kolkata

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