Microsoft Purview DLP/MPIP - Senior Consultant

As an experienced Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will deliver high-quality work products within deadlines, actively leading, mentoring, and guiding junior team members. You will collaborate with onsite and offshore teams to understand functional requirements and ensure seamless project execution.

Work you'll do

As a Senior Consultant on the Cyber Operate team, you will be responsible for…

• Provide advanced technical support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP), including sensitivity labels, label policies, auto-labeling, encryption, and complex issue escalation.
• Monitor and improve the health, scalability, and security of Purview DLP and MPIP configurations, clients, and connected agents; maintain secure versions and mitigate identified risks.
• Troubleshoot DLP policy and sensitivity-label deployments, label-policy and auto-labeling behavior, Endpoint DLP onboarding and agent synchronization, and alert and incident triage.
• Manage the lifecycle of DLP policies and sensitivity labels, including policy tuning, simulation mode, enforcement rollout, exception handling, change control, and reviews of Activity Explorer and Content Explorer.
• Architect automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation solutions using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, KQL, Microsoft Sentinel, and Power Automate; analyze service trends to reduce recurring issues and false positives.
• Prepare audit documentation, address identified gaps, translate technical insights into actionable recommendations for business and IT leaders, and support onboarding and training for new users and junior staff.

The team

Deloitte's Cyber Operate teams manage clients' critical cyber assets either as a fully managed service or in partnership with clients. They deliver skilled talent, cutting-edge technologies, and robust processes to operate client cyber capabilities. This includes:

• Managing Identity Lifecycle
• Security Operations
• Threat Intelligence
• Application Security
• Business Transformation
• Continuous Compliance.

Cyber Operate team focuses on efficiently running operations by enabling automation, reducing manual effort and adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based on the standards set by clients.

Location: Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Pune / Chennai

Shift Timings: 24/7 rotational shifts; on-call support based on project assignment

Qualifications

Required:

Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• 6 - 10 years of experience in advanced technical support and operational leadership for
• Data Protection solutions, with hands-on experience operating Microsoft Purview DLP and MPIP.
• Strong working knowledge of sensitivity labels, label and auto-labeling policies, encryption and rights management, and DLP policies across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and endpoints (Endpoint DLP).
• Expertise in troubleshooting, risk mitigation, and solution upgrades.Experience architecting automated monitoring and remediation solutions (PowerShell, Graph API, KQL).
• Strong compliance and audit documentation skills.
• Proven ability to mentor and train junior staff.

Preferred:

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Experience with process optimization and service improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with cloud security and the wider Microsoft security stack (Microsoft Defender,
• Microsoft Sentinel, Entra ID, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps).
• Experience with Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance or eDiscovery in Microsoft Purview.
• Certification: Microsoft SC-401 (Information Security Administrator) or SC-400 (Information Protection Administrator), SC-200, CISM or equivalent Security certifications (Azure / AWS / GCP).

Education:

• BE/B.Tech/M.C.A./M.Sc (CS) degree or equivalent from accredited university