Cybersecurity Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $250/hr
mercor
LeidosLeidos is seeking an experienced M365 Security and Compliance Administrator to join our Information Technology team. This role requires a seasoned professional who can strategically manage and enhance the security and compliance posture of the M365 environment within a GCC (Government Community Cloud) tenant, particularly in a federal agency context. This senior engineering role sits at the center of the organization’s device, identity, and M365 security ecosystem. The engineer is responsible for protecting enterprise Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS endpoints; ensuring compliant, reliable access to M365 services, and driving rapid engineering responses to vulnerabilities, outages, and operational risks. The successful candidate will apply with deep technical expertise, cross-platform engineering capability, and high operational security judgment.
Role Summary: Responsible for securing and maintaining compliance of the Microsoft 365 (M365) ecosystem and enterprise endpoints. Leads security governance, implements and enforces controls across M365, email, identity, devices, and telemetry, and provides incident response and audit/ATO support to ensure alignment with federal and organizational security requirements.
Bachelors Degree and 8+ years of experience. 4 additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
be a US Citizen or US Person with the ability to obtain a Public Trust level 5 clearance.
Deep experience with Microsoft Defender (XDR, Endpoint, Cloud Apps).
Hands-on with Sentinel SIEM, and cross-platform telemetry pipelines.
Expert-level Intune engineering across Windows/macOS/iOS/iPadOS.
Advanced PowerShell for remediation, automation, and OS image manipulation.
Strong understanding of CAP architecture and identity risk enforcement.
Experience with ATO control evidence, compliance mapping, and audit support.
Growth mindset and willingness to learn emerging security domains.
Strong cross-team collaboration (Cyber, Ops, EA, ICAM, Comms).
Excellent communication—clear summaries, user-impact translation, and documentation.
High reliability, ownership, and situational awareness during high-severity events.
Prior experience in federal security, high-compliance, or high‑assurance environments.
Experience with Jamf, Okta connectors, Copilot audit logging, Graph API operations.
Experience with mSCP baseline engineering and macOS security hardening.
Prior involvement in enterprise-wide Conditional Access enforcement.
Strategic security oversight & governance
Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing management of M365 security policies, standards, and technical guardrails aligned to federal requirements and organizational controls.
Own governance for data protection capabilities including document classification, labeling, retention, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) using Microsoft Purview.
Email security & compliance management (Exchange Online)
Define and enforce email security policies such as encryption, sensitivity labeling, and secure mail flow to reduce unauthorized disclosure.
Implement and maintain email encryption solutions (S/MIME and/or Microsoft Information Protection) to protect confidentiality of email communications.
Administer and monitor anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-malware protections to defend against evolving threats.
Identity, access, and conditional access (Entra ID)
Engineer and validate device-compliance–based Conditional Access policies across Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms.
Investigate and remediate Conditional Access failures, identity anomalies, and external/guest access issues, including M365 B2B trust and secure partner collaboration requirements.
Endpoint & device security engineering (Intune)
Design, test, and deploy Intune configuration and compliance policies for Windows, macOS, and iOS/iPadOS, including Enrollment Status Pages (ESPs) and OOBE workflows.
Develop remediation scripts (PowerShell/platform scripts/configuration profiles) to close compliance gaps and enforce security baselines.
Coordinate enterprise rollout of urgent vulnerability mitigations and validated vendor fixes; support vulnerability reviews and baseline rebuilds.
Risk management & compliance assurance (ATO / controls)
Establish and operate a risk management approach to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks across the M365 ecosystem.
Support ATO/control assessment activities by drafting implementation statements, collecting artifacts, and providing evidence aligned to audit/logging requirements.
Security monitoring, SIEM, and telemetry engineering (Defender / Sentinel)
Lead integration and operational management of Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel for threat detection, alerting, and response across M365.
Build and maintain SIEM integrations/connectors (e.g., M365, collaboration and identity systems) and develop ingestion pipelines (e.g., Azure Function Apps) for third-party logs.
Tune audit retention, analytic rules, and alert logic to improve signal quality and investigation readiness.
Incident response & operational support / collaboration
Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting for device compliance failures, identity/access incidents, telemetry gaps, and OS/app protection issues.
Partner with cross-functional teams to align security solutions with business objectives, deliver technical leadership, and support enterprise syncs and operational reviews.
Stay current on M365 security/compliance updates, industry trends, and emerging capabilities; drive improvements to security posture and operational efficiency (including use of GCC Copilot where appropriate).
Platform Scope / Tooling Microsoft 365 (GCC), Microsoft Purview (DLP/labels/classification/retention), Exchange Online, Entra ID & Conditional Access, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure (Function Apps / Log Analytics), plus integrations with collaboration/IT systems (e.g., ticketing and SaaS log sources).
Morning
Review Sentinel incidents, Defender telemetry gaps, and compliance drift.
Respond to overnight CAP failures, Slack EMM issues, or OS update regressions.
Build/test remediation scripts (CVE fixes, NTLM disablement, compliance corrections).
Deploy or test Intune configuration profiles, ESP changes, or app protection updates.
Troubleshoot support cases with Microsoft (Purview DSPM, Copilot logs, Okta connector).
Conduct cross-team investigations (external-user access anomalies, Teams meeting forensics).
Validate CAP behaviors across platforms using test devices.
Work on ATO evidence packages and documentation.
Update Jira tasks, Confluence documentation, and CR submissions.
Send status updates on active investigations, mitigations, and test results.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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LeidosLeidos is seeking an experienced M365 Security and Compliance Administrator to join our Information Technology team. This role requires a seasoned professional who can strategically manage and enhance the security and compliance posture of the M365 environment within a GCC (Government Community Cloud) tenant, particularly in a federal agency context. This senior engineering role sits at the center of the organization’s device, identity, and M365 security ecosystem. The engineer is responsible for protecting enterprise Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS endpoints; ensuring compliant, reliable access to M365 services, and driving rapid engineering responses to vulnerabilities, outages, and operational risks. The successful candidate will apply with deep technical expertise, cross-platform engineering capability, and high operational security judgment.
Role Summary: Responsible for securing and maintaining compliance of the Microsoft 365 (M365) ecosystem and enterprise endpoints. Leads security governance, implements and enforces controls across M365, email, identity, devices, and telemetry, and provides incident response and audit/ATO support to ensure alignment with federal and organizational security requirements.
Bachelors Degree and 8+ years of experience. 4 additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
be a US Citizen or US Person with the ability to obtain a Public Trust level 5 clearance.
Deep experience with Microsoft Defender (XDR, Endpoint, Cloud Apps).
Hands-on with Sentinel SIEM, and cross-platform telemetry pipelines.
Expert-level Intune engineering across Windows/macOS/iOS/iPadOS.
Advanced PowerShell for remediation, automation, and OS image manipulation.
Strong understanding of CAP architecture and identity risk enforcement.
Experience with ATO control evidence, compliance mapping, and audit support.
Growth mindset and willingness to learn emerging security domains.
Strong cross-team collaboration (Cyber, Ops, EA, ICAM, Comms).
Excellent communication—clear summaries, user-impact translation, and documentation.
High reliability, ownership, and situational awareness during high-severity events.
Prior experience in federal security, high-compliance, or high‑assurance environments.
Experience with Jamf, Okta connectors, Copilot audit logging, Graph API operations.
Experience with mSCP baseline engineering and macOS security hardening.
Prior involvement in enterprise-wide Conditional Access enforcement.
Strategic security oversight & governance
Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing management of M365 security policies, standards, and technical guardrails aligned to federal requirements and organizational controls.
Own governance for data protection capabilities including document classification, labeling, retention, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) using Microsoft Purview.
Email security & compliance management (Exchange Online)
Define and enforce email security policies such as encryption, sensitivity labeling, and secure mail flow to reduce unauthorized disclosure.
Implement and maintain email encryption solutions (S/MIME and/or Microsoft Information Protection) to protect confidentiality of email communications.
Administer and monitor anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-malware protections to defend against evolving threats.
Identity, access, and conditional access (Entra ID)
Engineer and validate device-compliance–based Conditional Access policies across Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms.
Investigate and remediate Conditional Access failures, identity anomalies, and external/guest access issues, including M365 B2B trust and secure partner collaboration requirements.
Endpoint & device security engineering (Intune)
Design, test, and deploy Intune configuration and compliance policies for Windows, macOS, and iOS/iPadOS, including Enrollment Status Pages (ESPs) and OOBE workflows.
Develop remediation scripts (PowerShell/platform scripts/configuration profiles) to close compliance gaps and enforce security baselines.
Coordinate enterprise rollout of urgent vulnerability mitigations and validated vendor fixes; support vulnerability reviews and baseline rebuilds.
Risk management & compliance assurance (ATO / controls)
Establish and operate a risk management approach to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks across the M365 ecosystem.
Support ATO/control assessment activities by drafting implementation statements, collecting artifacts, and providing evidence aligned to audit/logging requirements.
Security monitoring, SIEM, and telemetry engineering (Defender / Sentinel)
Lead integration and operational management of Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel for threat detection, alerting, and response across M365.
Build and maintain SIEM integrations/connectors (e.g., M365, collaboration and identity systems) and develop ingestion pipelines (e.g., Azure Function Apps) for third-party logs.
Tune audit retention, analytic rules, and alert logic to improve signal quality and investigation readiness.
Incident response & operational support / collaboration
Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting for device compliance failures, identity/access incidents, telemetry gaps, and OS/app protection issues.
Partner with cross-functional teams to align security solutions with business objectives, deliver technical leadership, and support enterprise syncs and operational reviews.
Stay current on M365 security/compliance updates, industry trends, and emerging capabilities; drive improvements to security posture and operational efficiency (including use of GCC Copilot where appropriate).
Platform Scope / Tooling Microsoft 365 (GCC), Microsoft Purview (DLP/labels/classification/retention), Exchange Online, Entra ID & Conditional Access, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure (Function Apps / Log Analytics), plus integrations with collaboration/IT systems (e.g., ticketing and SaaS log sources).
Morning
Review Sentinel incidents, Defender telemetry gaps, and compliance drift.
Respond to overnight CAP failures, Slack EMM issues, or OS update regressions.
Build/test remediation scripts (CVE fixes, NTLM disablement, compliance corrections).
Deploy or test Intune configuration profiles, ESP changes, or app protection updates.
Troubleshoot support cases with Microsoft (Purview DSPM, Copilot logs, Okta connector).
Conduct cross-team investigations (external-user access anomalies, Teams meeting forensics).
Validate CAP behaviors across platforms using test devices.
Work on ATO evidence packages and documentation.
Update Jira tasks, Confluence documentation, and CR submissions.
Send status updates on active investigations, mitigations, and test results.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Originally posted on Himalayas