Government Cloud & Zero Trust Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain device compliance and Conditional Access controls supporting the Zero Trust device pillar.
• Engineer, deploy, and maintain STIG-compliant endpoint security baselines for Windows systems.
• Apply and maintain DISA STIG, organizational security baseline, and applicable federal endpoint-hardening requirements.
• Configure Intune compliance policies, configuration profiles, endpoint security policies, and security baselines for government environments.
• Support endpoint-management capabilities within applicable Microsoft Government Cloud environments, including GCC, GCC High, or related environments as required.
• Integrate endpoint posture and device-compliance signals with identity and access-control solutions.
• Ensure only authorized, managed, compliant, and appropriately secured devices can access protected enterprise resources.
• Implement endpoint controls supporting Zero Trust principles including device identity, continuous verification, least privilege, and risk-based access.
• Coordinate with identity teams on Microsoft Entra ID device registration, join models, Conditional Access, and authentication requirements.
• Support Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or equivalent endpoint detection, security telemetry, vulnerability-management, and response capabilities.
• Remediate endpoint vulnerabilities, configuration findings, compliance exceptions, and security control deficiencies.
• Assist with evidence collection and technical documentation supporting security assessments, audits, authorization activities, and continuous monitoring.
• Support endpoint configurations aligned with applicable NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, CISA, DoD, or agency-specific security requirements, as applicable to the environment.