Senior Microsoft Platform Engineer
Jensen Hughes
$125,600–$140,000
Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role responsible for administering and maintaining an organization's Microsoft platform, covering Microsoft 365 services, Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, and Intune-based endpoint management. Day-to-day work centers on enterprise patch management, identity and access governance, Microsoft Defender security, and PowerShell automation, with Tier 3 support responsibilities across infrastructure and security teams. Suits an experienced Microsoft infrastructure engineer with broad hands-on platform expertise.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 3,000–22,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is primarily an administration and operations role (owning, managing, and patching the Microsoft ecosystem) rather than a software-building role, which is why 15-1244 is preferred; however, the PowerShell automation and platform-engineering framing give 15-1252 some claim as a runner-up.
Total experience requirement is stated as '8-12 years of Microsoft infrastructure experience'; 8 years is used as the minimum.
No compensation range is provided in the posting.
CMMC/NIST environment experience appears in the responsibilities section as a support task and in preferred qualifications; it is treated as preferred since it is explicitly listed under 'Preferred Qualifications'.
Microsoft certifications (Endpoint Administrator, Identity Administrator, Azure Administrator, Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert) are listed under Preferred Qualifications and are not emitted as skills since they are credentials rather than named technologies.
The caller has designated this role as fully remote with a national candidate pool; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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