TC-CS-CDR-EDR-Senior

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. We are seeking an experienced XDR Consultant / Engineer with strong hands on expertise in XDR consulting, deployment, migration, and administration. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with Microsoft Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint, Defender for O365, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud) and CrowdStrike XDR, and will be comfortable engaging directly with customers, leading discussions, and delivering secure, scalable XDR solutions. Experience with other XDR platforms or security tools (beyond Microsoft Defender XDR and CrowdStrike XDR). would be added advantage. This role requires a blend of technical depth, consulting mindset, and excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers to understand security requirements, current state architecture, and business objectives.
• Provide XDR consulting and advisory services, including tool selection, architecture recommendations, and best practice guidance.
• Design end to end XDR solutions aligned with customer environments, security maturity, and operational needs
• Lead and execute deployment of XDR platforms, including onboarding endpoints, identities, email, cloud workloads, and integrations.
• Configure XDR policies, controls, and baselines to ensure optimal security coverage and operational efficiency.
• Validate deployments through testing, pilot rollouts, and production cutovers.
• Plan and execute migration from legacy security tools or EDR solutions to XDR platforms.
• Perform migration activities such as agent replacement, policy mapping, validation, and post migration stabilization.
• Support parallel runs, service readiness validation, and transition to steady state operations.
• Perform day to day administration of XDR platforms
• Ensure XDR environments are stable, compliant, and audit ready.
• Act as a primary technical point of contact for customers.
• Lead technical discussions, workshops, reviews, and status calls with customer stakeholders.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Prepare and deliver documentation, reports, and presentations for customers.
• For XDR Senior, expected relevant experience would be 3 to 8 Years

EY | Building a better working world EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow. EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.