W Contract Dlp Engineer

Job Title: DLP Engineer

Job Location: Raritan, NJ 08869 (Onsite from day one)

Job Duration: 6+ months

Minimum years of experience required: 5+ years

Type of Hire: w2 contract

JOB DETAILS:

Key Responsibilities

• Insider Risk (IRM) Monitoring: Assist in reviewing anonymized alerts in the Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management console - help identify patterns like "Data Resignation" (at-risk departing employees) or "Data Leaks" by correlating activity across Teams, SharePoint, and Endpoint.
• DLP Strategy & Policy: Help manage Data Loss Prevention (DLP) specifically for IRM and Data Protection offering
• Optimization of "Auto-labeling" policies that automatically encrypt documents containing PII, PHI, or Intellectual Property
• Alert Correlation: Use the Content Explorer to investigate what was shared and the Activity Explorer to understand how it was shared
• Create weekly "Risk Snapshots" for leadership, visualizing trends in sensitive data exfiltration attempts.

Technical Qualifications

1. Education: Degree in Cybersecurity, Behavioral Science, Data Analytics, or Information Systems and/or six years of hands on experience
2. Analytical Logic: Strong ability to use Boolean logic and Regular Expressions (Regex) to define sensitive data types.
3. Microsoft 365 Core: Comfortable navigating the M365 ecosystem (understanding how a file moves from OneDrive to an external USB or Personal Cloud).
4. Discretion: High level of integrity; this role involves handling highly sensitive information regarding company risk and employee behavior.