{"id":1127479,"url":"https://alion.io/job/applied-materials-senior-microsoft-365-platform-engineer-automation-agents-copilot-2","title":"Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer – Automation, Agents, & Copilot","company":{"id":2749,"name":"Applied Materials","domain":"appliedmaterials.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/applied-materials","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":89,"open_postings":497,"ghost_share":0.004,"stale_share":0.207,"repost_share":0.01,"time_to_fill_p50_days":69,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":122000,"max":168000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":168000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot Studio","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","optional":false},{"name":"OneDrive","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Power Automate","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"SharePoint","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"DLP","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-21","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T10:41:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"Who We Are\nApplied 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 world’s technology.\nWhat We Offer\nSalary:\n$122,000.00 - $168,000.00Location:\nAustin,TX, Santa Clara,CAYou’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.\nAt Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.\nThe Opportunity\nWe are seeking a highly experienced Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to help engineer, administer, automate, and continuously improve our enterprise Microsoft 365 environment.\nThis 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.\nYou 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.\nIf you enjoy solving complex Microsoft 365 challenges, building scalable automation, and shaping responsible AI solutions, this is the role for you.\nKey Responsibilities\nMicrosoft 365 Platform Engineering\nAdminister, configure, and optimize Microsoft 365 services in a large enterprise environment.\n\nProvide engineering expertise across Microsoft 365 workloads, including:\nMicrosoft 365 Copilot\n\nMicrosoft Teams\n\nSharePoint Online and OneDrive\n\nMicrosoft 365 Apps\n\nMicrosoft Entra ID\n\nMicrosoft Purview and associated compliance capabilities\n\nDefine and maintain platform standards, configuration baselines, governance controls, and administrative operating procedures.\n\nEvaluate changes, releases, and service updates; assess their technical and operational impact and develop implementation plans.\n\nLead and support pilots, migrations, feature rollouts, service enhancements, and adoption initiatives.\n\nPartner with security, identity, compliance, networking, endpoint engineering, architecture, and operations teams.\n\nCopilot and Agent Development\nDesign, build, test, deploy, and support Microsoft 365 Copilot agents that address business and IT use cases.\n\nDevelop solutions using Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder, SharePoint agents, and Copilot Studio, as appropriate.\n\nDeploy and support Copilot connectors that securely ground agents in approved enterprise data sources.\n\nDevelop governance frameworks, standards, and review processes for Copilot agents, including ownership, data access, compliance, security, and lifecycle management expectations.\n\nImplement lifecycle processes for agent intake, review, deployment, monitoring, change management, and retirement.\n\nAutomation and Power Platform Engineering\nIdentify manual, repetitive, or error-prone processes and replace them with reliable automation.\n\nDesign, develop, and support cloud flows, approval workflows, scheduled processes, and integrations using Power Automate.\n\nIntegrate Microsoft 365 services with internal systems and approved external services using Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, connectors, and webhooks.\n\nEstablish appropriate ownership, monitoring, error handling, documentation, and support models for production automations.\n\nPowerShell Development\nDevelop production-quality PowerShell scripts, modules, and automation runbooks for Microsoft 365 administration and reporting.\n\nUse advanced PowerShell practices, including modular design, parameter validation, structured logging, exception handling, secure authentication, testing, and source control.\n\nAutomate activities such as provisioning, configuration management, policy deployment, license administration, lifecycle management, auditing, and reporting.\n\nModernize manual administrative procedures and legacy scripts into secure, supportable automation.\n\nGovernance, Security, and Operational Excellence\nImplement governance controls for identity, access, sharing, applications, agents, connectors, data, and service lifecycle management.\n\nWork with security and compliance teams to address data protection, retention, auditing, eDiscovery, access control, and regulatory requirements.\n\nMonitor service health, platform usage, adoption, configuration compliance, and automation performance.\n\nAct as a senior escalation point for complex Microsoft 365 incidents and service degradation.\n\nCoordinate complex escalations with internal operations teams and Microsoft support.\n\nMaintain architectural diagrams, configuration records, runbooks, knowledge articles, and standard operating procedures.\n\nProvide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to engineering and support teams.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n7+ years of hands-on experience engineering and administering Microsoft 365 services in a large or complex enterprise environment.\n\nBroad 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.\n\nAdvanced PowerShell development experience, including building and maintaining production-quality scripts and modules.\n\nHands-on experience developing and supporting Power Automate flows and other low-code or API-based automations.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing or developing Copilot agents, conversational solutions, or comparable AI-powered business solutions.\n\nExperience with Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder, SharePoint agents.\n\nExperience with Microsoft Graph API, including REST/SDKs, app registrations, permissions, OAuth, credential options, and least-privilege access.\n\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft 365 identity, licensing, security, compliance, and governance concepts.\n\nExperience delivering enterprise implementations, migrations, pilots, and feature rollouts.\n\nStrong troubleshooting skills across identity, permissions, policies, APIs, applications, clients, and cloud services.\n\nExperience creating technical documentation, operational procedures, and communications for both technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\n\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across engineering, security, operations, support, and business teams.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience deploying Copilot connectors for approved enterprise data sources.\n\nExperience with Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Key Vault, or related integration services.\n\nFamiliarity with Dataverse and Power Platform environment, connector, and DLP governance.\n\nExperience applying software-engineering practices to infrastructure and administrative automation, including Git, code review, testing, CI/CD, and release management.\n\nExperience establishing monitoring, telemetry, usage reporting, or operational KPIs for Microsoft 365 services and automations.\n\nKnowledge of responsible AI, information protection, data oversharing risks, and security considerations for grounded agents.\n\nRelevant Microsoft certifications.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nDuring the first year, the successful candidate will:\nBecome a trusted senior technical resource for the Microsoft 365 platform.\n\nDeliver measurable reductions in manual administration through PowerShell, Power Automate, and API-based automation.\n\nDevelop and operationalize secure Copilot agents for prioritized use cases.\n\nImprove platform reliability, configuration consistency, monitoring, and documentation.\n\nEstablish reusable engineering standards for scripts, flows, agents, and integrations.\n\nStrengthen collaboration among platform engineering, security, compliance, operations, and support teams.\n\nHelp turn emerging Microsoft 365 and Copilot capabilities into secure, supportable enterprise services.\n\nAdditional Information\nTime Type:\nFull timeEmployee Type:\nAssignee / RegularTravel:\nYes, 10% of the TimeRelocation Eligible:\nYesThe 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 members. In 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.\nFor 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.\nApplied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.\nIn addition, Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at ,or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. 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