Senior Security Engineer - Microsoft Security

About the role

A growing cybersecurity services business in Auckland is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to support enterprise customers and deliver complex security implementations across the Microsoft ecosystem. You will work directly with customers, leading security implementations and troubleshooting complex environments from discovery through to deployment and handover. Both permanent and contract positions are considered.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex Microsoft security implementations and take ownership of technical projects for a key enterprise customer.
• Design, configure, integrate, test and deploy security solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex identity, endpoint, cloud and security-platform issues.
• Lead technical discovery, assessments and solution design.
• Work with customers, vendors and technical teams, and support pre-sales activities such as technical discovery, solution discussions, presentations and proposals.
• Contribute to customer presentations and technical consulting.

Required profile

• Deep, hands-on experience with Microsoft security technologies.
• Experience delivering multiple security-solution integration projects in large enterprises, covering discovery, design, testing, deployment and handover.
• Enterprise change management, implementation risk, validation, rollback and technical documentation.
• Strong customer-facing skills in discovery, assessment, solution design, consulting and presentations.
• Ability to step into an unfamiliar enterprise environment and take ownership with minimal supervision.
• Eligible to work in New Zealand or hold NZ permanent residency or citizenship.

Required skills

• Microsoft Active Directory (forests, domains, trusts, replication, Group Policy, DNS, PKI, hardening)
• Microsoft Entra ID (Conditional Access, PIM, Identity Protection, hybrid identity)
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender XDR
• Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Sentinel (KQL, analytics rules, automation)
• PowerShell or Python for automation and API integration
• Advantageous: vulnerability management, CIS Controls/Benchmarks, Microsoft Graph API, Azure PaaS, Microsoft 365 security, SIEM/XDR integrations, detection engineering or security automation