Endpoint Security Engineer - Microsoft Defender

Piper Companies is seeking an Endpoint Security Engineer - Microsoft Defender to join a security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. This engineer will provide engineering, deployment, and operational support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint within a Federal customer's cloud and hybrid environments. This role is Hybrid in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities of the Endpoint Security Engineer - Microsoft Defender include:

• 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

Qualifications for the Endpoint Security Engineer - Microsoft Defender include:

• 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

Compensation for the Endpoint Security Engineer - Microsoft Defender includes:

• Salary: $140,000 - $165,000
• 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 

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