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IT Security Consultant

JWGCBasingstoke, Hampshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 8 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Posted
3 days ago
AzurePowerShellZero Trust

Job Description

HOME WORKING - REMOTE WORKING - HYBRID WORKING - ONE DAY PER WEEK IN THE OFFICE. Microsoft Security Consultant - Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR and Entra ID security controls (Conditional Access, Identity Governance, Entra GSA, PIM) - Azure services: Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Policy - Logic Apps, KQL and Microsoft Graph.

You will join a small and very successful Microsoft Solutions Partner delivering services across Microsoft Cloud, Business Apps, Managed Services, Security and AI. You will help customers achieve real outcomes from their technology while building enduring relationships. This role will offer you REAL career progression. You will be working from HOME and travel to the office ONE DAY per week.

You will join the Consultancy team to design, implement and support Microsoft security solutions that improve customer security posture and operational resilience. You will work alongside architects, consultants, SOC analysts, engineers and project managers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver customer-facing security, device management and identity projects
  • Implement and support Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR and Entra ID security controls (Conditional Access, Identity Governance, Entra GSA, PIM)
  • Configure, tune and troubleshoot Intune, including security baselines and hardening policies for servers and endpoints
  • Carry out Microsoft security assessments, remediation and improvement projects
  • Migrate third-party security vendor solutions into the Microsoft Security stack
  • Build security automation using Logic Apps, PowerShell and Microsoft cloud services
  • Support incident investigation and provide technical escalation to the SOC team
  • Produce high-level and low-level design documentation
  • Ensure compliance with governance, security and operational standards
  • Stay current with Microsoft security innovations and best practices

Essential Experience

  • 3 years in Microsoft Security, Identity and Endpoint engineering
  • Microsoft Sentinel implementation, configuration and tuning
  • Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud, Defender for Identity and Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Microsoft Entra ID: Conditional Access, PIM, Identity Governance, Entra GSA
  • Security monitoring, detection engineering and incident response
  • PowerShell scripting and security automation
  • Azure services: Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Policy
  • Logic Apps, KQL and Microsoft Graph
  • Cloud security, identity and compliance frameworks (Cyber Essentials, CIS, Zero Trust)
  • Microsoft Intune and baseline security configuration

Certifications

  • SC-200 Security Operations Analyst
  • SC-300 Identity and Access Administrator
  • AZ-500 Azure Security or SC-500 AI Security
  • SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect (desirable)

If you are a Microsoft Security Consultant with experience in Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR and Entra ID security controls (Conditional Access, Identity Governance, Entra GSA, PIM) - Azure services: Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Policy - Logic Apps, KQL and Microsoft Graph and are happy to WORK FROM HOME AND TRAVEL TO THE OFFICE ONE DAY PER WEEK - Then contact me IMMEDIATELY.

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