Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer - Data Sharing & B2B

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Core Knowledge & Skills

• Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals
• Led large projects
• Applies compliance frameworks
• Designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns
• Shapes deployment pipeline design

Work & Complexity

• Directs cross-team programs
• Performs advanced tuning
• Implements high availability/failover architectures
• Leads audits
• Plans growth
• Manages budgets

Quality & Independence

• Delivers high-quality outcomes
• Sets team standards
• Introduces innovative solutions
• Makes high-impact decisions

Teamwork & Communication

• Leads the engineering team
• Develops talent
• Resolves conflicts
• Communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders

Consulting & Engagement

• Provides high-level consulting to leadership
• Buils roadmaps
• Negotiates vendor contracts
• Sponsors innovation initiatives

Project Summary

AIS is seeking a Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of secure external collaboration capabilities across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem. This role is responsible for configuring and maintaining Azure B2B / Microsoft Entra External ID connections, implementing identity and data protection controls in Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Purview, designing secure access patterns for SharePoint-based extranets, and defining enterprise security controls for encrypted email, Conditional Access, Power Platform solutions, and Power BI content.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the unique needs of our client as a Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer - Data Sharing & B2B

Required For This Opportunity

• 8+ years of experience in Microsoft cloud engineering
• 4+ years of direct experience designing and administering Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD identity and access solutions
• Deep experience with Microsoft Entra External ID / B2B collaboration, cross-tenant access, external collaboration settings, guest access governance, and secure partner access models
• Strong experience implementing Microsoft Purview Information Protection capabilities, including sensitivity labels, encryption, and data protection policy integration
• Strong experience designing Microsoft Purview Message Encryption / OME solutions for secure external email exchange
• Proven experience designing and deploying Conditional Access policies in enterprise environments, including policy testing, exception handling, and access hardening
• Experience securing SharePoint Online sites and extranets for external access, including site permissions, sharing models, and information protection considerations
• Experience implementing governance and security controls for Power Platform, including environment strategy, roles, and data policies
• Experience securing Power BI platforms, including workspace governance, dataset security, sharing controls, and report access design

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience in highly regulated environments such as defense, government, healthcare, financial services, or other compliance-driven enterprises
• Experience supporting security assessments, accreditation packages, or control inheritance models
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender, audit logging, insider risk considerations, and monitoring of collaboration and sharing events
• Experience with DevOps, infrastructure as code, or scripted administration using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, or automation tooling
• Microsoft certifications in areas such as Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365 Security, Azure Security, or Purview

Pay

The targeted base salary range for this role is $121,000-$182,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process. Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.