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Data and AI Security Consultant

Microsoft· Technology Consulting
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Hyderabad, IndiaFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

The EAG Security Consultant - Data Security helps enterprise customers discover, classify, protect, govern, and investigate sensitive data across Microsoft 365, Microsoft Purview, endpoints, cloud services, and AI-enabled workflows. Combines hands-on Purview delivery, consulting judgment, regulatory awareness, and secure AI adoption patterns to reduce data exposure risk and strengthen DLP effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Lead data security discovery workshops to understand sensitive data landscape, regulatory drivers, current Purview adoption, oversharing risks, and AI / Copilot readiness blockers.
  • Design and implement Microsoft Purview Information Protection capabilities including sensitivity labels, label policies, encryption, auto-labeling patterns, and user adoption controls.
  • Configure, tune, and operationalize Data Loss Prevention across Microsoft 365 workloads, endpoints, cloud apps, browsers, and AI-related workflows where applicable.
  • Assess Insider Risk Management, eDiscovery, Audit, Data Lifecycle Management, and Compliance Manager usage to improve investigation readiness and governance maturity.
  • Apply DSPM and data-security-for-AI patterns to identify overshared sensitive data, label coverage gaps, exposed credentials, and risky data interactions before AI rollout.
  • Support Data Protection Agents and Purview agent scenarios such as sensitive data discovery, SIT recommendation, DLP triage, Purview posture assessment, and regulatory mapping.
  • Create executive-ready deliverables including posture baselines, risk registers, remediation roadmaps, policy design packs, operating procedures, and adoption recommendations.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information protection, data loss prevention, compliance engineering, data governance, or related security consulting roles.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview data security capabilities, especially Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft 365 environments.
  • Working knowledge of sensitive information types, classification strategies, sensitivity labels, DLP rules, alert triage, policy tuning, and exception handling.
  • Ability to translate regulatory, privacy, and business requirements into implementable Microsoft Purview controls and customer-facing design documentation.
  • Understanding of Microsoft 365 security and compliance workloads including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, endpoints, Defender for Cloud Apps, audit and eDiscovery signals.
  • Ability to analyze policy exports, telemetry, PowerShell outputs, and Purview reports to identify coverage gaps and remediation priorities.
  • Strong communication skills for technical workshops, executive readouts, project governance, and cross-functional collaboration with security, compliance, legal, and data teams.

Skills

Required:Microsoft Purview Information ProtectionData Loss Prevention (DLP)Regulatory & Compliance Translation
Nice to have:PowerShell / Telemetry Analysis
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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