Senior Security Engineer, Microsoft Stack

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us — and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.

Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience, backgrounds and skills to the university. And today, we’re ready to expand our reach. All we need is you.

At SNHU, you'll have the option to work remotely in the following states:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

We ask that our remote employees have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace that is free of distractions. Employees must reside in, and work from, one of the above approved states.

The Senior Security Engineer, Microsoft Stack will report to the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer. In this role, you will be a hands‑on engineering role accountable for implementing, operating, and continuously improving SNHU's Microsoft security platforms. The role is the primary technical owner of Microsoft Defender XDR and contributes Microsoft platform expertise to Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra , Intune, and Purview in partnership with the teams that own them.

The position exists to turn SNHU's security requirements and Zero Trust strategy into working, measurable controls protecting learners and employees across Azure, Microsoft 365, and hybrid infrastructure. The work divides roughly into driving use of Microsoft tools, automation that removes repetitive operational effort, and partnership with other teams on addressing security control gaps.

SNHU is a nonprofit university whose mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable education. Protecting student records, financial aid systems, and the academic platforms our learners depend on is a direct contribution to that mission.

You will work 100% remotely from any of our approved states. #LI-Remote

• Engineer and implement integrated security controls across Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Entra , App Governance, Intune, and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, Data Loss Prevention, and Data Security Posture Management, using platforms to reduce identity, endpoint, application, cloud, and data risk through secure configuration, attack-surfacereduction, automated response, and continuous validation of control effectiveness.
• In partnership with IAM, engineers identity security controls in Microsoft Entra , including Conditional Access, Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management, access reviews, workload identities, and hybrid identity protections. Test every policy change in a non-production tenant before promoting it to production.
• Build production-quality security automation using Power Shell, Microsoft Graph, KQL, and REST APIs, and deploys repeatable configurations as code through Bicep or Terraform in CI/CD pipelines, to reduce manual effort, configuration drift, and time to remediate.
• Integrate Microsoft security telemetry with SNHU's SIEM, SOAR, IT service management, and threat intelligence platforms; troubleshoots cross-platform issues through to permanent resolution; and serves as the security engineering point of contact with Microsoft, assessing roadmap changes, feature releases, and deprecations for their impact on SNHU controls.
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