Lead discovery, requirements analysis, architecture, and solution-design activities across Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview.

Design integrated Microsoft Defender XDR solutions covering Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Design Microsoft Purview solutions covering Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, eDiscovery, and Audit.

Translate business, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, data-protection, and regulatory requirements into implementation-ready Microsoft security and compliance designs.

Prepare high-level designs, detailed designs, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, policy mappings, implementation guides, and Architecture Decision Records.

Lead architecture workshops, technical design sessions, design reviews, implementation walkthroughs, and architecture-governance discussions.

Provide architectural guidance to engineering and implementation teams throughout pilot, validation, phased deployment, and production rollout activities.

Review implementation evidence and validate that Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview configurations align with approved designs.

Develop architecture principles and policy-design standards that support consistent implementation across business units, countries, and technology environments.

Skills and experiences

Required technical skills 1

3 to 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, Microsoft security consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise security delivery.

Strong hands-on experience with both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview.

Strong knowledge of Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsft Purview Specifically.

Strong experience designing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint architecture, including endpoint onboarding, endpoint security policies, endpoint detection and response, antivirus, attack surface reduction, device control, web protection, and security settings management.

Experience designing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps architecture, including cloud discovery, application governance, session controls, Conditional Access App Control, activity policies, and SaaS application protection.

Strong experience designing Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions, including data classification, sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels, auto-labelling, encryption, and content marking.

Experience leading delivery from discovery and design through pilot, rollout, go-live. Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture and its application across identities, endpoints, email, applications, collaboration services, and enterprise data.

Ability to evaluate technical decisions, platform limitations, security risks, compliance risks, dependencies, and scope in complex enterprise environments.

Consulting and delivery skills Able to lead architecture workshops and explain security decisions, risks, prerequisites and implementation guidance to technical and senior stakeholders.

Strong ownership of design quality and scope boundaries. Comfortable coordinating across Security, Compliance, Identity, Endpoint, delivery and client IT teams throughout solution design and delivery.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.

Desirable Microsoft certifications include: SC-100, SC-200, AZ-500, SC-300, SC-401, AZ-305, MD-102.

Preferred experience

Experience delivering large-scale Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview products for enterprise or regulated organisations.

Experience designing integrated Defender XDR architectures across endpoints, identities, email, collaboration services, cloud applications, and security operations.

Experience deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint across large endpoint estates using pilot groups, deployment rings, validation criteria, and phased rollouts.

Experience designing Microsoft Purview controls across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, supported endpoints, and supported cloud applications.

Experience producing high-level designs, detailed designs, architecture diagrams, security standards, configuration guides, policy mappings, and Architecture Decision Records.

Experience working with Security, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Identity, Endpoint, Messaging, SOC, and senior client stakeholders.

Experience supporting design reviews, production readiness, go-live, and knowledge transfer.

Experience delivering multi-country or multi-entity security-transformation programmes.

Experience in banking, financial services or another regulated industry.

Local experience and established stakeholder-engagement capability in Malaysia are preferred.

About you

You are a collaborative security architect with hands-on Microsoft Defender and Purview expertise, strong stakeholder maturity, disciplined design ownership, and the ability to deliver complex enterprise security projects at scale.

Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

Experience:

Security Architect: 3 years (Required)
Defender XDR: 3 years (Required)
Purview: 3 years (Required)

Language:

English (Required)

Work Location: In person

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