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Senior Engineer M365

Thinkahead Hyderabad 2 days ago

engineering

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Primary Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and optimise large-scale Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace solutions (5,000–150,000+ seats)

Serve as final escalation point for critical production incidents involving Intune, Autopilot, Windows 365 Cloud PC, Entra ID Conditional Access, Defender for Endpoint, and Teams

Provide advanced troubleshooting of device compliance, application deployment failures, provisioning issues, BitLocker recovery, and hybrid identity sync problems

Design and implement enterprise-grade Conditional Access policies, Intune configuration profiles, compliance policies, and Windows Update rings

Lead Autopilot migrations (on-prem ConfigMgr → full cloud Autopilot) and Windows 365 Cloud PC deployments

Build and maintain PowerShell/PnP/Graph API automation for tenant-wide governance and lifecycle management

Optimize Microsoft Teams environments (voice, meetings, governance, retention, data loss prevention)

Integrate and troubleshoot Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk)

Conduct performance and security reviews of Entra ID, SharePoint, and OneDrive configurations

Create and deliver technical runbooks, root-cause analysis reports, and proactive health assessments

Mentor mid-level engineers and contribute to the internal knowledge base and tooling

Participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation (with generous premium on-call compensation)

Required Qualifications

8+ years of progressive experience in Microsoft endpoint and cloud identity management

Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft Intune, Entra ID (Azure AD), Autopilot, Windows 365, and Co-management

Advanced PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API scripting (automation is a daily activity)

Proven track record in resolving complex, enterprise-scale Modern Workplace incidents

Deep understanding of Entra ID Conditional Access, MFA, identity protection, and privileged identity management

Hands-on experience with Defender for Endpoint advanced hunting, attack surface reduction, and ASR rules

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Teams administration (including Teams Phone / Direct Routing if certified)

Experience with large SharePoint Online migrations, sensitivity labels, and retention policies

Relevant Microsoft certifications required (at minimum two of the following): – MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator – MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams – MD-102: Endpoint Administrator – SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator

Excellent communication skills and prior client-facing consulting or enterprise support experience

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include: