Lead Engineer - M365

Inception42, a G42 company, is the region’s leading innovator of AI-powered domain-specific as well as industry-agnostic products, built on a rich heritage of research and development. Within the G42 ecosystem, Inception functions as the core intelligence layer – transforming data and compute infrastructure into real-world, applied AI solutions. Beyond its commercial endeavors, Inception is committed to creating positive societal impact. For more information, please visit www.inception42.ai

Overview:

Inception42, a G42 company, is the region’s leading innovator of AI-powered domain-specific as well as industry-agnostic products, built on a rich heritage of research and development. Within the G42 ecosystem, Inception42 functions as the core intelligence layer – transforming data and compute infrastructure into real-world, applied AI solutions. Beyond its commercial endeavors, Inception42 is committed to creating positive societal impact. For more information, please visit www.inceptionai.ai

Own the design, security, and operation of the Microsoft 365 estate, Entra ID, and Azure platform. This hands-on Lead Engineer role sets technical standards, leads a small engineering group, and serves as the final technical escalation point. Work with Information Security, Application Support, Product Engineering, and business stakeholders to improve platform reliability, security, cost, and user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture, security and operation of the Microsoft 365 estate, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Intune, Defender and Purview.

• Own Entra ID as the organisation's identity platform, covering Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, hybrid identity, application integration and identity governance.

• Own Azure platform engineering and governance, including landing zones, subscription and policy design, monitoring, access control and cost management.

• Define the technical standards for the platform and ensure they are applied consistently across the estate.

• Design and maintain the security posture across the estate, including Zero Trust access, device compliance, data protection and retention, and provide the evidence required for audit and customer assurance.

• Automate platform administration and manage configuration as code, with appropriate version control and change management.

• Lead significant platform changes such as migrations, tenant work and new service introductions, from design through to stable operation.

• Act as the senior technical escalation point for platform issues and ensure root causes are addressed permanently.

• Mentor engineers through design review, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

• Assess the Microsoft roadmap and advise on adoption, including the implications for cost, security and user experience.

• Within six months, assess the estate, agree risks and priorities, close priority identity and privileged-access gaps, publish technical standards, and begin automating repetitive administration.

• Within twelve months, demonstrate improved security, collaboration and identity reliability, auditable configuration as code, effective Azure cost and access governance, and stronger engineering capability.

Qualifications:

• Deep hands-on expertise across the Microsoft 365 estate at enterprise scale, including Exchange Online, SharePoint and OneDrive, Teams and Intune.

• Strong Entra ID engineering experience covering Conditional Access design, Privileged Identity Management, hybrid identity and directory synchronisation, application registration and single sign-on, and identity governance.

• Has led large-scale Microsoft 365 platform work such as tenant migration or consolidation, and taken it through to a stable outcome.

• Practical security and compliance capability within Microsoft 365, including Zero Trust principles, Defender, and Purview for data protection, retention and eDiscovery.

• Automation and infrastructure as code, with strong PowerShell and experience of Bicep, Terraform or ARM.

• Azure platform engineering and governance, including subscription and landing zone design, Azure Policy, RBAC, monitoring and cost control.

• Sound technical judgement, and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Technical leadership of a small engineering team, or acting as a design authority.

• Microsoft certifications such as Identity and Access Administrator, Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

• Experience meeting UAE regulatory or public sector security requirements, and supporting customer security assurance and audit.

• Experience securing and integrating AI services within a Microsoft estate, including Copilot governance and data readiness.

• Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud environments alongside Azure.

• Experience working with other platforms such as Zscaler, Aruba ClearPass, Cofense, ManageEngine, ServiceNow and Jira Service Management

• Experience implementing and operating Microsoft Dynamics.

• Experience in an environment where the platform supports customer-facing products as well as internal users.

Inception42 is building AI systems designed for practical deployment at scale — across industries, infrastructure, and national-level initiatives.

If you want to work close to both advanced AI capability and real-world execution, we’d like to hear from you.