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At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Engineer.Core Knowledge & Skills: Manages routing/switching and network security, multi‑OS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/Hyper‑V), core cloud services, and release of IaC via pipelines; automates common admin tasks.
Work & Complexity: Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources.
Quality & Independence: Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope.
Teamwork & Communication: Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users.
Consulting & Engagement: Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support.
Position Summary
We are seeking amid-senior Microsoft 365 Engineerwith deep experience inMicrosoft Purview, eDiscovery, and Microsoft 365 compliance technologiesto support the design, implementation, and administration of enterprise information governance, records management, data lifecycle, and legal discovery capabilities.
This role willbe responsible forengineering and operating solutions across theMicrosoft Purview compliance portal, with emphasis oneDiscovery (Standard and Premium), content search, retention, records management, insider risk–adjacent data controls, data loss prevention, sensitivity labeling, and audit-based investigations. The ideal candidate has experience supporting legal, compliance, security, and IT stakeholders in highly regulated environments and can translate governance and discovery requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Design, configure, and administerMicrosoft Purviewcompliance capabilities across the Microsoft 365 environment.
Implement and supporteDiscovery Standard and Premiumworkflows, including:
Case creation and management
Custodian and non-custodial data source identification
Legal hold configuration
Search and collection design
Review set preparation
Export and handoff support
Perform and supportContent Search,Audit, andCommunication/Collaboration data investigationsacross Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, and other supported M365 workloads.
Design and manageretention labels,retention label policies,retention policies, andrecords managementconfigurations aligned with business, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Support implementation ofsensitivity labelsandMicrosoft Information Protectionintegrations where they intersect with compliance and governanceobjectives.
Configure and supportData Loss Prevention (DLP)policies for Microsoft 365 workloads, including tuning, testing, and operational troubleshooting.
Assistlegal, compliance, and information governance teams with preservation, collection, defensibility, and chain-of-custody-oriented processes within Microsoft 365 tooling.
Support investigation workflows usingMicrosoft Purview Auditand related compliance telemetry.
Collaborate with security, messaging, collaboration, and identity teams to ensure Purview solutions align with enterprise architecture and access controls.
Develop operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, governance standards, and technical documentation.
Support role-based access control, least privilege, and administrative segmentation within the Purview and Microsoft 365 compliance ecosystem.
Participatein roadmap planning for information governance, data protection, and compliance modernization initiatives.
Provide Tier 3 support and troubleshooting for escalated Purview, eDiscovery, retention, and compliance policy issues.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Science, Legal Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5–8 yearsof IT, cloud, compliance, or security engineering experience.
3+ yearsof hands-on experience administeringMicrosoft 365 complianceandMicrosoft Purviewtechnologies.
Direct experience supportingMicrosoft eDiscovery, including legal holds, content searches, case management, and data exports.
Strong experience with Microsoft 365 data governance capabilities, including:
Retention policies
Retention labels
Records management
Audit
Data Loss Prevention
Sensitivity labeling concepts
Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 workloads relevant to discovery and governance, including:
Exchange Online
SharePoint Online
OneDrive for Business
Microsoft Teams
Experience troubleshooting policyapplication, search scoping, permissions issues, and content discovery challenges in M365.
Familiarity with administrative scripting and automation usingPowerShell.
Strong understanding of compliance, legal discovery, and information governance principles.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience witheDiscovery Premiumreview workflows, collections, analytics, and review set preparation.
Familiarity withMicrosoft Purview Insider Risk,Communication Compliance, orInformation Barriers.
Experience implementingauto-labeling,trainable classifiers,sensitive information types, or advanced classification/governance controls.
Experience inregulated environmentssuch as defense, government, healthcare, financial services, or other compliance-intensive sectors.
Knowledge of legal and regulatory frameworks related torecordsretention, defensible deletion, privacy, or litigation readiness.
Experience integrating Purview governance with broader Microsoft 365 security controls, including Entra ID, Defender, and access governance.
Familiarity with migration ortransformationprojects involving legacy archive, records, or discovery platforms.
Relevant certifications preferred, such as:
Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate
Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
Relevant security, records management, or legal technology certifications
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.
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