Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer – Automation, Agents, & Copilot

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Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the worlds technology.

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We are seeking a highly experienced Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to help engineer administer automate and continuously improve our enterprise Microsoft 365 environment.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone with broad expertise across the Microsoft 365 platform and a strong record of operating services at enterprise scale. The successful candidate will combine deep Microsoft 365 administration skills with modern automation capabilities including advanced PowerShell Power Automate Microsoft Graph and the development of Microsoft 365 Copilot agents.

You will work across platform engineering operations governance security and user enablement. You will help reduce manual effort improve service reliability introduce responsible AI-powered solutions and establish repeatable engineering patterns that can be supported at scale.

If you enjoy solving complex Microsoft 365 challenges building scalable automation and shaping responsible AI solutions this is the role for you.

• Administer configure and optimize Microsoft 365 services in a large enterprise environment.

• Provide engineering expertise across Microsoft 365 workloads including:

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot

  • Microsoft Teams

  • SharePoint Online and OneDrive

  • Microsoft 365 Apps

  • Microsoft Entra ID

  • Microsoft Purview and associated compliance capabilities

• Define and maintain platform standards configuration baselines governance controls and administrative operating procedures.

• Evaluate changes releases and service updates; assess their technical and operational impact and develop implementation plans.

• Lead and support pilots migrations feature rollouts service enhancements and adoption initiatives.

• Partner with security identity compliance networking endpoint engineering architecture and operations teams.

• Design build test deploy and support Microsoft 365 Copilot agents that address business and IT use cases.

• Develop solutions using Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder SharePoint agents and Copilot Studio as appropriate.

• Deploy and support Copilot connectors that securely ground agents in approved enterprise data sources.

• Develop governance frameworks standards and review processes for Copilot agents including ownership data access compliance security and lifecycle management expectations.

• Implement lifecycle processes for agent intake review deployment monitoring change management and retirement.

• Identify manual repetitive or error-prone processes and replace them with reliable automation.

• Design develop and support cloud flows approval workflows scheduled processes and integrations using Power Automate.

• Integrate Microsoft 365 services with internal systems and approved external services using Microsoft Graph REST APIs connectors and webhooks.

• Establish appropriate ownership monitoring error handling documentation and support models for production automations.

• Develop production-quality PowerShell scripts modules and automation runbooks for Microsoft 365 administration and reporting.

• Use advanced PowerShell practices including modular design parameter validation structured logging exception handling secure authentication testing and source control.

• Automate activities such as provisioning configuration management policy deployment license administration lifecycle management auditing and reporting.

• Modernize manual administrative procedures and legacy scripts into secure supportable automation.

• Implement governance controls for identity access sharing applications agents connectors data and service lifecycle management.

• Work with security and compliance teams to address data protection retention auditing eDiscovery access control and regulatory requirements.

• Monitor service health platform usage adoption configuration compliance and automation performance.

• Act as a senior escalation point for complex Microsoft 365 incidents and service degradation.

• Coordinate complex escalations with internal operations teams and Microsoft support.

• Maintain architectural diagrams configuration records runbooks knowledge articles and standard operating procedures.

• Provide technical guidance mentoring and knowledge transfer to engineering and support teams.

• 7 years of hands-on experience engineering and administering Microsoft 365 services in a large or complex enterprise environment.

• Broad administrative experience across the Microsoft 365 platform with demonstrated depth in major workloads such as Copilot Teams SharePoint Online/OneDrive Entra ID and Microsoft Purview.

• Advanced PowerShell development experience including building and maintaining production-quality scripts and modules.

• Hands-on experience developing and supporting Power Automate flows and other low-code or API-based automations.

• Demonstrated experience designing or developing Copilot agents conversational solutions or comparable AI-powered business solutions.

• Experience with Copilot Studio Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder SharePoint agents.

• Experience with Microsoft Graph API including REST/SDKs app registrations permissions OAuth credential options and least-privilege access.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 identity licensing security compliance and governance concepts.

• Experience delivering enterprise implementations migrations pilots and feature rollouts.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across identity permissions policies APIs applications clients and cloud services.

• Experience creating technical documentation operational procedures and communications for both technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across engineering security operations support and business teams.

• Experience deploying Copilot connectors for approved enterprise data sources.

• Experience with Azure Automation Azure Functions Logic Apps Key Vault or related integration services.

• Familiarity with Dataverse and Power Platform environment connector and DLP governance.

• Experience applying software-engineering practices to infrastructure and administrative automation including Git code review testing CI/CD and release management.

• Experience establishing monitoring telemetry usage reporting or operational KPIs for Microsoft 365 services and automations.

• Knowledge of responsible AI information protection data oversharing risks and security considerations for grounded agents.

• Relevant Microsoft certifications.

During the first year the successful candidate will:

• Become a trusted senior technical resource for the Microsoft 365 platform.

• Deliver measurable reductions in manual administration through PowerShell Power Automate and API-based automation.

• Develop and operationalize secure Copilot agents for prioritized use cases.

• Improve platform reliability configuration consistency monitoring and documentation.

• Establish reusable engineering standards for scripts flows agents and integrations.

• Strengthen collaboration among platform engineering security compliance operations and support teams.

• Help turn emerging Microsoft 365 and Copilot capabilities into secure supportable enterprise services.

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

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