Endpoint Security Engineer, Microsoft Defender

Washington, DC

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UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.
By creating continuously optimized identification, detection, and resilience from today’s dynamic threat landscape, UltraViolet Cyber provides both managed and custom-tailored unified security operations solutions to the Fortune 500, Federal Government, and Commercial clients. UltraViolet Cyber is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with global offices across the U.S. and in India. 
We are seeking a Endpoint Security Engineer that has deep expertise in Microsoft products. The Engineer will provide engineering, deployment, and operational support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint within a Federal customer's cloud and hybrid environments.
US Citizenship is required, with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

What You'll Do:

  • Manage day-to-day operations and tuning of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Support detection engineering, threat analytics, and device compliance policies
  • Integrate Defender with Microsoft Sentinel and other security tooling
  • Assist with patching, incident response, and endpoint hardening
  • Develop SOPs and technical documentation
  • Deployment of Defender for Endpoint agents to minimum threshold of Microsoft supported endpoint devices via Microsoft Intune or Active Directory (AD) Group Policy Objects (GPO)
  • Identification of target endpoint machines, OS versions, and deployment method
  • Creation of DfE deployment scripts, including uninstallation of legacy EDR and anti-virus solutions
  • Creation of DfE support infrastructure to support mass deployment (i.e., storage accounts, authorization, etc.)
  • Testing of DfE deployment scripts
  • Deployment of DfE agents to identified endpoint machines to scoped minimum threshold (percentage) of device endpoints
  • Verification of onboarding and reporting 
  • Validate proper configuration to align with best practices

What You've Done:

  • 4+ Years of total Security Engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with Defender for Endpoint in Microsoft GCC/GCC-H environments
  • Strong understanding of EDR, device compliance, and threat analytics
  • Experience with MDE integration into broader SIEM/SOAR platforms (e.g., Sentinel)
  • Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell preferred)
  • Strong documentation and incident reporting skills

What We Offer:

  • 401(k), including an employer match of 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed  
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (available on the 1st day of the month following your first day of employment)  
  • Group Term Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability  
  • Voluntary Life, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and/or Critical Illness  
  • Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program  
  • 11 Paid Holidays Annually 
UltraViolet Cyber maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect our company's differing products, services, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors.
We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this position. We know your time is valuable.
UltraViolet Cyber welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. 
If you want to make an impact, UltraViolet Cyber is the place for you!
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Tags: Active Directory Analytics Automation Clearance Cloud Compliance EDR Endpoint security Incident response PowerShell Scripting Sentinel SIEM SOAR

Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Health care Insurance

Region: North America
Country: United States

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