Sr. Engineer - Microsoft Purview | On Site, Bangalore

Sr. Microsoft Purview Engineer is responsible for implementing, managing, and maintaining data security, compliance, and governance solutions using Microsoft Purview tools and services. The engineer will focus on integrating data streams, performing data discovery, classification and implementing data loss prevention policies to secure sensitive information in the organization. There will be some exposure to Azure and other cloud tools, platforms, and other products.

How you'll make an impact

• Integrate Purview with Microsoft and third-party services
• Perform data discovery and create policies for auto-labelling SITs
• Conducted pilot testing and provided feedback on Data Classification and DLP policies
• Collaborate with data owners, IT teams, and business units to align data governance policies
• Support regulatory compliance efforts (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) by providing data visibility and control
• Support leadership with reports for decision-making
• Regularly review and update Purview configurations to align with evolving threats and compliance needs
• Stay up to date with Microsoft Purview feature updates and best practices
• Participate in security assessments and maturity reviews to enhance the organization's data governance posture
• Implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies using Microsoft Purview
• Perform ongoing proactive platform availability, health, and issue monitoring to allow potential issues or outages to be communicated and swiftly remediated
• Escalate tasks and route cases to vendor support or upper tier engineers as required
• Develop and maintain runbooks for ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting issues
• Perform any required agent restarts, redeployments, or updates to address business impacting issues
• Assist in troubleshooting Microsoft Labelling and Endpoint DLP implementation and user issues and document resolutions
• Provide IT support to end-users by troubleshooting incidents related to DLP issues and address user service requests including an intake hotline
• Perform accuracy review check on simulated alerts in Active Explorer to refine the policies
• Monitor and investigate DLP alerts or violations
• The role demands the availability for US working hours (5PM (IST) to 2AM (IST))
• This role is Work From Office role.

• Have 5+ years of IT experience, with minimum 3 years focused on Microsoft Purview.
• Must have admin skills for most of the Azure services and managed via the Azure console. Some understanding of AWS/Google cloud services
• Knowledge of Microsoft technology such as Server, AD, DNS, Group Policy, and Office 365/Exchange, Azure, Azure Entra ID

• Knowledge of Defender Suites (XDR, Endpoint, O365, Identity, VM, Cloud Apps, etc.)

• SC-401 Information Security Administrator Associate certification is preferred
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written are required.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. "Optiv Chips In" encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)